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blogject

noun

Etymology

Blend of blog + object. Coined by American academic Julian Bleecker in 2005.

  1. derived from ἀντικείμενον
  2. derived from obiectum
  3. derived from object
  4. compounded as blogject — “blog + object”

Definitions

  1. A physical object that automatically posts updates about its current location and state…

    A physical object that automatically posts updates about its current location and state online.

    • As I don't want to be too long, here are the essential attributes of blogjects.
    • Julian Bleecker discusses the ins and outs of turning his car into a blogject.
    • I scour every photo feed published for anything that appears to be a photo of me. Most of it's from blogjects, CCTV cameras, and crap like that.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blogject. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA