Make Some Fictional Toronto Friends

Last Monday it was the premiere of CBC's The Border, with all its law enforcement tensions, ethical questions, and no holds barred background shots of Toronto. Today The Border is back for episode two, while another new Canadian story is hitting the air. Or rather, the wires. Hitting the web? Whatever - it's online.

Story2Oh! is a new project from a collection of Canadian television professionals that will forgo the tv screen to play out on numerous websites. And it's not a case of shooting television episodes and posting them online. Instead this story of four Toronto twenty-somethings will be told through the characters posts and interactions with each other on blogs and social networking sites like Facebook. In fact all of the main characters have already been posting and making friends on Facebook, and are ready to accept new "friend requests" anytime.

There's also already been questions raised and discussed about how hard audience members will work for a narrative, and if clicking around to piece a story together is something people will spend time on. Personally, I can't imagine getting sucked into an online drama, but I guess if you're someone who spends plenty of time surfing around on Facebook or FlickR anyway, today's launch might be worth keeping an eye on. Not that I have any idea what that launch is going to be. I just know that Ali is not nearly as taken with Devon as she used to be, and I don't think their breakfast this morning is going to go well at all...

Story2Oh!'s basecamp can be found at http://story2oh.com.