Just read the Bokardo post “welcome to the stream” which got me thinking — with RIAs, we are increasingly getting away from the single path through a website. We interact with an application without page refreshes, we want to be able to define our own paths or interactions. So how is it that this tendency towards ’streaming’ is arising? By its very definition, a stream flows in a single direction towards an endpoint. In the web manifestation, it is linearized in terms of time. It is the blog post as opposed to the wiki..

Perhaps the two can co-exist, and in fact need to. It just strikes me as odd that we associate both free-form interaction and time-sensitive ’streaming’ information as being part of the ‘New Web’.