The new world of 'blogjects' #edcmooc

This week I went through with "Why Things Matter". Julian Bleecker, a researcher at the University of Southern California, has written a "Manifesto for Networked Objects" where he describes a clearly related but not identical manifestation of this technology. He cames up with absolutyly new thing such as ‘blogjects’, and ‘the pigeon that blogs’ which I’ve never heard before. According to  Julian Bleecker, as "blogjects," objects that create an ever-expanding record of themselves, accessible over the net - objects that tell their own stories. Blogjects provide connction  between ourselves and the world, focused upon the world -- except here the technologies are not intimate, but are instead extimate, spread around the environment, augmenting our sense of the world at a distance.

So,  we have another thing - the Pigeon that Blogs.  Actually blog is ‘a flock of pigeons that are equipped with some telematics to communicate on the Internet wirelessly, a GPS device for tracing where its been flying, and an environmental sensor that records the levels of toxins and pollutants in the air through which they fly’. This flock of pigeons send air pollution data into the internet.  As they fly over cities, they ‘blog’ – recording their daily encounters – directly into the Internet. A realtime constant stream of data is translated into a map within the net of air pollution patterns, as recorded, transmitted and traced by the pigeons themselves as they fly around. I suppose that the real and the virtual world are intimately  connected and changes in one effect changes in the other.

Now physical and the digital world are fusing. Therefore people should not just to create objects that blog, as we now understand blogging. But to disseminate blogs and social formation as one in which objects participate in the multipath culture circulation network.