Julian Bleecker has a fascinating post on blogjects — things other than people that blog. He has in mind more than just vending machines with Web interfaces:

The significance of the Internet of Things is not at all about instrumented machine-to-machine communication, or sensors that spew reams of data credit card transactions, or quantities of water flows, or records of how many vehicles passed a particular checkpoint along a highway. Those sensor-based things are lifeless, asocial recording instruments when placed alongside of the Blogject. Just like the motivation of the “alpha” blogger, the character of the motivated Blogject is to make, disseminate and enhance meaning, to draw attention and to be assertive. Like the alpha blogger, the Blogject enters into conversations that yield consequences.

Snag the paper ‘Why Things Matter’ at the bottom of the post. Via Boing-Boing.

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