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#REDIRECT [[Julian Bleecker]]
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'''Blogject''' is a [[neologism]] coined by [[Julian Bleecker]] for an object that gathers metadata about its interaction with people, other objects, or its environment. Just as people can [[blog]] about their interactions in the world, blogjects similarly gather and communicate this information as well. The term was first used publicly by [[Bruce Sterling]] during a keynote speech at the O'Reilly [[Emerging Technology Conference]] 2006 in San Diego, California. Bleecker's use of the term is closely related to Sterling's own neologism [[spime]].
It is possible the word is an evolution of the term [[Blobject]] used by Bruce Sterling during his SIGGRAPH 2006 speech in Los Angeles, California.
==Examples of blogjects==
* Your car, gathering data about distance, weather, road conditions, speed, as you travel.
* Your house, who is coming and going, what is inside, environmental information
* Your applicances, gathering duration, frequency of use, types of food prepared
* Your computer, where you went, what you typed, how you interacted, duration
* Your cell phone, who you talked to, how long, your GPS ___location
* Your game console, what you played, how long, with who, what did you accomplish?
==External links==
* [http://research.techkwondo.com/files/WhyThingsMatter.pdf A Manifesto for Networked Things]
* [http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/blogject-lift06.pdf 1st Blogject workshop report (.pdf, 19Mb)]
* [http://www.360voice.com/ Xbox 360 Blogject]
[[Category:Internet slang]]
[[Category:Computing and society]]
[[Category:Neologisms]]
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