Webheads do not live by ordinary audio and video alone. There are other types of broadcasting on the Internet.
SOAP ON THE WEB
What would a medium be without soap operas? The Spot is an ongoing on-line soap starring attractive twentysomething housemates and friends in California, of all places. Although there is no actual video of the action, text, graphics, and sound clips move the story along. You can eavesdrop on certain "private" conversations with RealAudio. Since the Internet is nothing if not interactive, fans can send E-mail to Spot characters and even suggest scenes and plot developments. The site gets more than 60,000 hits a day and may lead to other on-line episodic
shows.
http://www.thespot.com
for the top page
http://www.thespot.com/thespot/spot-speak/spotspeak.html
for RealAudio sound
THE WEB, GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE
You probably don't have time each day to drop by Yellowstone National Park and do a little fly-fishing. But you certainly have time to visit the Yellowstone Virtual AdVenture page. Once there, you'll want to check out the scenic vistas (GIFs), relax by the bubbling streams, and pick up pointers from your guide (Al Beatty, via RealAudio). You can stop at Utah'
s Green River or Idaho's Henry's Fork later. Maybe tomorrow.
http://www.virtualadventures.com
BACK TO THE GARDEN
There's this garden in California somewhere, with a video camera pointed at it, feeding images of it (the garden) to the Web every few seconds or so. And there's this robot arm that can water the garden, getting its instructions from you via the Web. This is not your ordinary TV.
http://trapper.usc.edu/cgi-bin/gard-image/G?
HELLO DALI
The Salvador Dali gallery is laid out like a museum, with different virtual rooms to explore, each containing images of the artist's imaginative and challenging paintings. Be sure to clean those ants out of your watch before leaving.
http://www.nol.net/nil/dali.html
THE WEB IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES
A different Forrest Gump quote every time you access this page. Mama never said the Internet would be like this.
http://gump.sgi.com/
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