A demo of one of these tracks, "Colossus", was given to MySpace members who participated in a promotional effort.

Ultimately, the News Corporation will make it easy for MySpace members to put clips from its television programs and trailers for its movies on their profile pages.

In addition, MySpace members would be able to link their profiles to Facebook using the Facebook Connect service.

(MySpace members often cycle through dozens of pages each time they log on, checking up on friends' pages.)

(As at many networking sites, MySpace members must receive permission from other members before adding them as friends, and sometimes "friendship" is no deeper than a brief e-mail exchange.)

Their silence suggests they may be nervous about losing their credibility as alternative-culture figures with MySpace members.

Additional MySpace members whose profiles reflected links with the "Josh Evans" profile also began to send Meier negative messages.

"We hate MySpace with a fiery passion, and are in full approval of a support group for each and every MySpace member," the pair concludes.

On the opposite side of the screen, there were scrolls of e-mail messages that other MySpace members had sent him: friendly, uncapitalized, hallucination-free greetings.

Both new singles are available for adding to other MySpace members' music profiles.