Talk:Blogject

This article was nominated for deletion on 2006-12-26. The result of the discussion was Merge to Julian Bleecker.

How can these be blogjects?

Your house, who is coming and going, what is inside, environmental information
Your applicances, gathering duration, frequency of use, types of food prepared

Do you consider design choices, and traces of use, information that is communicated back? Types of food prepared... How? Stains on appliances?

Don't you need a technology to track the information AND the ability to feed it back in some way? artaide 06:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Objects become blogjects by taking the information their sensors are gathering and feeding it to you in a conversational manner, causing the human mind to anthropomorphize the interaction. In the case of the house, it would be your home telling you that you are wasting electricity... or that the heat was left up too high when no one was around... or it would be your refrigerator (in combination with RFID) telling you that you need more milk... or that you eat too much cheese...

But going beyond the object's interactions with humans, the objects themselves would also interact. A cell phone could talk about the house that it visited because both would be aware of presence via Bluetooth. Or your Coffee maker could tell you that you don't have any coffee left in the cabinet and you better get some if you expect to use it tomorrow. The real power would be that you buy more coffee not because you want it, but because you feel sorry for the coffee maker. Sure it sounds laughable, but human beings are easily manipulated with emotion and we have a tendency to attach ourselves passionately to objects already. If those objects were somehow made to seem alive, it would happen even easier.

That is my angle on this word. It describes a way of interacting with devices that will only become more prevalent. tmarkelz 11:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]