Nine Rooms
You may have heard me muttering about a project on the go over the last few weeks, and now here it is:
Nine Rooms - a blogcom drama
http://www.ninerooms.com
It went live today and it’s a dramatic comedy narrated by its characters though their blog postings. I’ve been planning this for a couple of months and trying to find out if anyone has done anything like this before and amazingly, I don’t think they have.
So I contacted some of the best writers I know and every week we post to our characters’s blogs who follow a plot which rolls out in all kinds of twists and turns over next several months.
Please read it and if you enjoy it like I hope you will then please tell your friends about it.
Apart from this post and this site, my name doesn’t appear on it anywhere so there’s no connection from Nine Rooms back to me, so you can send Nine Rooms round the office or whatever and if you choose not to tell anyone that I created it, then that’s cool with me.
The main thing is that people can read it, follow the story, identify with the characters, post messages, chat about it with their friends - whatever you would do with a sitcom or drama, except it’s blogs.
The writing staff are: Ben Piears who writes Alan Cross, Bonnie Gillespie (in California) who writes Gina Nelson, Paul Gibbins who writes Joey Standton and me directing and writing Claire Goodwin and Nick Stampfer. They are all brilliant and they’re going to make this lots of fun.
You can download a press release as an attatched file here
or
Read Nine Rooms at http://www.ninerooms.com
Of course, this is just a hub, you have to go to the individual characters’ blogs to read it.
Enjoy.
June 20th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Really cool idea, Nick. Don’t let it catch the eye of any BBC or Hollywood TV types or they’ll steal it!
June 20th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Awesome - good luck with it all!
I’ve added a tab to Netvibes so hopefully others will start to follow it all
One small problem-ette, they don’t list the RSS/Atom feeds for each blog; easy to rectify though - simply add ‘/atom.xml’ to the end of each Blog Web address and you’ll be fine. Example: for Claire (at http://nineroomsclaire.blogspot.com/) her feed is http://nineroomsclaire.blogspot.com/atom.xml
If you want to import all the Nine Rooms feeds here’s a wee OPML file for ya: http://www.openomy.com/download/mike_riversdale/ninerooms.opml
June 21st, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Sounds like you sorted out the RSS feeds thingies from the plethora of comments over at my blog, on ya
And I now look forward to abusing my “post comments on my blog” status shortly, hee hee …
Good luck one more time with the soap opera … sorry, drama
June 21st, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Oh - and the OPML link, don’t worry, link to the OPML file, tell people it’s an OPML file and those that know will use it to import all five RSS feeds into their readers in one swift move …
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
Wow, this is going to be really interesting. Told all my pals about it and I am sure we will all be following it with SUPER interest.
Tis going to be quite a ride for sure.