Definition[]
A blogject (a concatenation of the words "blog" and "object") are objects that blog.
Overview[]
Blogjects are devices that broadcast a steady stream of information about their world and what they make of it, and sometimes take action to change it.
| “ | The most peculiar characteristic of Blogjects is that they participate in the exchange of ideas. Blogjects don’t just publish, they circulate conversations. Not with some sort of artificial intelligence engine or other speculative high-tech wizardry. Blogjects become first-class a-list producers of conversations in the same way that human bloggers do — by starting, maintaining and being critical attractors in conversations around topics that have relevance and meaning to others who have a stake in that discussion. If the contribution to that discussion happens through some seemingly mundane bit of networked disseminated insight matters little in terms of their consequence. A Blogject can start a conversation with something as simple as an aggregation of levels of pollutants in groundwater. If this conversation is maintained and made consequential through hourly RSS feeds and visualizations of that same routine data, this Blogject is going to get some trackback. | ” |
Source[]
- Julian Bleecker, "A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things" (2006) (full-text). This article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike License 2.5.