Blogjects

Toys can talk! 

I remember when I was still a kid, I always imagined my pencil case can talks, my toys can talks and even toilet bowl can talks too! These were some little imagination when I was still a kid. But these are not something impossible anymore. Now things can blog too! 

Blogging is not something new in digital world. People now blog about their life, foods, politics and more stuff that can related to people. Now, objects can blogs too. Not opening an account to blog in computer, but communicating to human and response back to human. "The most peculiar characteristic of Blogjects is

that they participate in the exchange of ideas." Blogjects join Internet users to discuss and response back to users to do the interaction. This will be really fun because users can interacting with Blogjects when they are surfing on the Internet. Instead of getting answer from searching one by one, interacting way of asking question is better. 

"A Blogject can start a conversation with something as simple as an aggregation of levels of pollutants in groundwater." Simple conversation can always lead to in-depth questions. Blogjects have the ability to start the conversation to let Internet users to start discussing and they will response back to the users. People usually think Internet is one-way communication but blogjects are two-way communication and they interact with users actively and lively. This can actually creates some interest on some boring topic and create awareness at the same time. For example, blogject has started a topic which is about air polution in the world. With this intereaction from blogject, the topic can become a debate kind of style of discussion which can generate Internet users' interest towards air polution and create awareness on this issue at the same time.

There are three peculiarities of Blogjects:

1. Blogjects track and trace where they are and where they’ve been.

In my opinion, I think Blogjects need to know where they were or where they are so they communicate and give the right response at the right place and right topic. This is their awesome ability to keep themselves well-organized without messing themselves in where they are, where they were. 

2. Blogjects have self-contained (embedded) histories of their encounters and experiences.

From what I understand from this sentence, Blogjects have the ability of remembering what they have experience in previous discussion or what kind of users they have met before. With this, Blogjects able to improve their knowledge about certain new issue or they able to understand different people with different idea easily. 

3. Blogjects always have some form of agency — they can foment action and participate; they have an assertive voice within the social web.

From what I understand from this sentence, blogjects have some agencies that can bring up the topics to boost up the confident of Internet users in participating for the discussion or debates in social web. With this, it can increase the interactions of blogjects and Internet users. 

With these characteristic, blogjects will become a 'digital friend' of human. In the future, they will be the best helper or friend in human life. For example, they can become friends with a student who study in overseas alone; help out a mother to tell bed time story to the children. I personally think blogjects is really interesting because they are interactive and fun at the same time. But is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think it is quite scary when a computer invading a person's privacy or talk to you suddenly.