In effect it appears that the author of Waxweb has contextually made great efforts to allow democratic participation in his work (including translating the text into French, German and Japanese). Excellent! It's also heartening that such a structure is being built around poetic imagery like the following (from p2 of 'STORY'):

"The year is 1914, and James Hive-maker, a Spiritualist
Cinematographer, has traveled to the Antarctic in order
to gather images of the dead. The next year, he travels
to the Battle of Ypres where he finds them floating
above clouds of poison gas. Hive-maker's search is
motivated by a belief that the dead live near to us,
illuminated by a moral decay similar to the glow
of a radium watch.

To me this is rather more exciting than being provided with the ability to, say, navigate Mickey Mouse's nasal passages as played by Jim Carie, made possible by Industrial Light and Magic and brought to the public by Disney Corp.....

Waxweb is of particular interest because it is an example of negotiating narrative in a hypertextual/hypermedia format. Narrative in the context of literature has been predicated upon linearity for most of its history. Much has been written about hypertextuality, but most of it in terms of non-fictive work e.g. in terms of learning patterns:

"The disadvantage of cognitive learning is that it
is linear and sequential... Experiential learning is
delightfully parallel..."

Creve Maples, Wired, October '95)

The following may be of interest as examples of (predominantly postmodern) textual ways of dealing fictively with the issue of linearity:

Robert Coover: 'The Magic Poker' (from 'Pricksongs and Descants')
Donald Barthelme: 'The Indian Uprising' (from 'Sixty Stories')
Italo Calvino: 'Invisible Cities'
Jorge Luis Borges: 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (from 'Labyrinths')

Unfortunately, it's somewhat out of my remit to discuss the relative merits/disadvantages of hyper-narrative fictions as opposed to traditional linear forms(also I'm working to a timescale as this has to be submitted for marking as a dissertation). Suffice to say that Waxweb is an accessible (as long as you have a fast connection) and often quite beautiful contribution to the above mini-canon and suggests a possible format for other composers/writers/ directors - well, why not.... multimedia artists.