Instant Audience - an Introduction to Soundboarding

Next time you're on a phone call with a friend, or relative, or telemarketer, try augmenting the experience of communication with your online, Instant Audience. Highlight moments of shared significance with a chorus of "ooohs" or "wows," applause or laughter. It will redefine the very nature of teledialogue.

Instant Audience is one of a growing cybercopia of what have become known to the virtual few as "Soundboards." So known is this Soundboard phenomenon that there is at least one site, eponymously yclept "Soundboards.com," devoted entirely to the aforementioned. Many of the Soundboards in this collection are compilations of sound bytes from the cinema. See, for your typically outrageous example of Soundboarding, the Mel Brooks ibid. It will make you laugh.

Soundboards abound on the Internet because soundboarding is an invitation to a rather unique, and easily produced form of play. For more Soundboards, you might consider braving the fun and pop-up proliferating "eBaumsworld."

And yes, I am home, online, happily enMacintoshed, at last (applause, ooh and wow sounds).