Xbox Blogs About You

On the website 360voice.com , users can set up a blog for their xbox. Users create an account on the website, and the xbox "blogs" about them based on their xbox live activity such as what games they have played, how long they have been playing them, and what achievements they have unlocked on their xbox. The idea has become popular with many xbox users, if not simply for the humor of some of the blogs and the novelty of the idea. The advantages to this are that xbox users and their friends can track their activity by reading the blog. The pitfalls are that blogs often turn out to be repetitive, and you must be constantly logged into xbox live for the blog to track your activity. However, the idea behind this website is revolutionary in bringing a new aspect to social networking in gaming, particularly console gaming. The website also features forums and user generated content. I think that this concept shows the convergence of two different forms of media: the internet, and console games.