Xbox 360 Can Blog
So at the bottom of the front page on my site you can see the latest post from my Xbox 360 on its personal blog. The blog is powered by 360Voice.com, which is pretty much really great. I have been enjoying it a lot so far, and I look forward to seeing what they are able to do with the service. I also love the idea of having my blog feature the post on my Xbox’s blog. How meta is that?
So what does my 360 say so far? Well, it’s only had a couple day to post, but here’s an example:
GamesFirst hit the switch and fired me up yesterday. His total gamer score is 3940. He played Perfect Dark Zero, EA SPORTS FN 3, Feeding Frenzy, Oblivion, Geometry Wars Evolved, and after that, called it a day.
Where is GamesFirst at? I want to disown him. I am putting myself up on eBay ASAP.
I was impressed enough with the site to write up an article for GamesFirst, in which I detail more of the origin of the concept. I think this is a quite brilliant implementation of Julian Bleeker’s concepts, and the creators (Trapper Markelz and Stephen Sopp) were admittedly influenced by Bruce Sterling’s keynote address at the 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. Beeker and Sterling both discuss “blogjects,” things that emit a steady stream of data about their use and status in the world.
The concept is very intriguing, and it’s not difficult to see many interesting applications for networked items. In fact it seems a lot like notions of the Personal Area Network, extrapolated and automated to the larger world of commercial goods.
I see 360Voice.com as an artistic piece, and a literary piece. The postings are not yet reaching the level of being truly compelling, or adding anything significant to the information, but I do believe in the potential. I would love to see the service integrate notions of friends lists and/or even comments and messaging to make the 360’s blog more “real.” I think the point of this service has to push the envelope into the uncanny valley to show us what can be done. Development continues, so hopes are high.
I also think that the initial realization that the Xbox 360 is one of these blogjects is a really cool revelation, and I wish I had thought of it. So kudos to you Mssrs. Markelz and Sopp.
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