Internet radio stations, record companies and even stranger creatures are popping up like magic mushrooms in a cow field. The evolution of the Web audio scene is part of a more general shift in the way we use the Internet. It's not like a movie or a radio station, where information is presented in a pre-determined, sequential way. But nowadays, the other two ways of presenting media are coming into their own. Of course, sequential and interactive data delivery over the Web is nothing new.
Many sites have audio, video, interactive applets and other goodies, and some are of long standing.
Dotted lines connected them to the site map, and disclaimers in fine print warded off those with older browsers or meager bandwidth. Well, my sequentially-oriented friends, those days are waning, and the tyranny of the browser will soon be ended. As the Web converges with TV and radio, sequential delivery will become commonplace. As audio is inherently a sequential medium, this is big news for us audio types. Full-length features are the order of the day, and we don't even need a browser to display them, thank you very much.