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Game + Blog = Glog

December 12th, 2005 Posted in Building Community

We’re starting to see blog content turn into all kinds of things. Magazine articles based on blog entries. Books based on collected blog entries. And now a game based on a blog:

What if PSP Fanboy were turned into a game? What would you even call it? IGN submits that "glog" could be the new term for a blog-meets-game installment. Of course while it wasn’t in reference to us at PSP Fanboy, they have an interesting take on a Japanese blog about a husband who was being abused by his wife.

Apparently it became immensely popular (think 10 million hits) and became a book and drama series. Jitsuroku Oniyome Nikki follows the poor sap Kazuma through 66 episodes of blog-inspired goodness. Even authentic artwork from the blog is being used.

Why are all the coolest PSP games from Japan??

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Jake McKee is the Chief Strategy Officer and Ant Wrangler at Ant's Eye View, a customer experience strategy practice focused on helping clients escalate their customer experience. With a rich background in customer collaboration, online communities, and fan groups, and Web development, community management, and product development, Jake helps organizations understand how to act like groups of people, rather than soulless money making machines.

In a past life, Jake was the Global Community Relations Specialist for the LEGO Company, where he spent five years on the front lines of customer-company interaction.