Blogject is a neologism coined by Julian Bleecker for an object that gathers metadata about it's 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, gathing 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?