My Xbox has given up on me...

 "jbom... I beg you! Please don't make me hurt another day... please?" - March 7, 2007
"Microsoft should have built me with tears... so I can cry when jbom leaves me cold... and alone..." - March 19, 2007
"I have come to realize that jbom has no soul... and his heart is a twisted black mass of evil. To never play a game is my new eternity!" - March 5, 2007

I've spoken of the service offered at 360Voice.com before where it takes information about your gaming patterns and creates the effect of a blog written by your very own Microsoft Xbox game console.  Of course the Xbox isn't actually blogging, but the effect is very funny and creative with very unique "posts".

See my Xbox's blog here: http://www.360voice.com/blog.asp?tag=jbom  (My Xbox "gamertag" is "jbom")

You'll notice however that my Xbox has long since given up on me, and I have to admit I'm not really a gamer.  That said I almost feel compelled to tell my Xbox that I've been out of town a lot, I was in Vietnam for a month, work has been busy, and I just got married... wait a minute... am I actually explaining myself to a machine?!

Mur Lafferty takes the concept to the next level.  If this type of artificial intelligence can create such original content, then why can't they artificially interact with each other as well through other blog-enabled mediums, such as comments and trackbacks.  Can you imagine your Xbox trashtalking and calling out another friend's Xbox?  Or taking it to the next level:

One thing these blogs lack is the full community aspect of blogging: namely, allowing comments. Would Xboxes put comments on each others' blogs? And what about if other machines began blogging, like our cars and refrigerators? I can see a flame war happening with the console system flaming the car when you drive away from home on vacation.

Mur Lafferty (The Escapist)

The reality is that the leverage of RSS, blogs, tags and other "Web 2.0" concepts continues to find new and creative outlets.  I'm exploring with a few others how some of these concepts can be leveraged in conventional business and healthcare.  There are a lot of opportunities as we increasingly become part of a publish-subscribe world (but more on that later).