Object that BLOGSSS!??

Come on! Object that will blog? Are you kidding me? What's those object that are blogs? What they blogs?

This is how I think in my mind when I saw this term, "Blogjects." The object that will blogs. How can you imagine that? It's very abstract isn't it? It's makes me have a clear picture when I read through the article "Why Things Matter?" by Julian Bleecker. Blogjects is the objects that create an ever-expanding record of themselved, accessible over the net ---the objects that tell their own stories.

This reminds me of the Toy Story, the toys that will talk, which we didn't realize that they will talk. In the facts that actually every objects in this world even a tiny objects are telling something but they are in different form which the human can't be understand and realize. For the blogjects, it's expressing as a physical things over the web. They are participating in the exchange of ideas. They are more like a carrier that carry the information and waiting for it to be disseminate.

Same as our human bloggers, blogjects also have certain characteristic which are distinguished from us which are:

-Blogjects track and trace where they are and where they've been
-Blogjects have self-contained (embedded) histories of their encounters and experiences.
-Blogjects always have some form of agency--they can foment action and participant; they have an assertive   voice within the social web.

There is two reasons that the blogjects are existing. First is the cohabitation and next is the co-participation.


Cohabitation- The Question of Space and Place. 

Blogjects are existing with us but they are in different space and place. We can't see them but we can know what information that they have been exchange. The Internet of things can also upload, download, disseminate and stream meaningful and meaning-making stuff. Blogjects are able to capture the information about the happenings in its surroundings, communicate with other informatic social being and disseminate all of that anywhere in the world.

This let me realized that when we connecting to the Internet for the communication and informations, Blogjects are actually do the same. They are exists and also exchange the information like we do. They are like the CCTV that acts as our third eyes that spy and observe us over the Internet.

Co-Participation 


Blogjects is involving in our life. Remember the GPS that talks? Your iPhone 4G that tells you what times is your meeting? What you going to have for today's dinner? Everything are decided or been planed by the blogjects.


In short, Internet will be world that we going to live in it even though we are in the real life. The technology had take control over us. The object had the mind to think and everything is been arranged for us by using Internet. Internet is our second life or world.

Which to pick? The double A competition!

Have you cross your mind that one of the day that your phone are able to talking with you rather than just the sending SMS and also the calling function? Well, that's why smartphone are invented and works on your hand. In 2007, iPhone had created a huge hits of the smartphone and nowadays the traditional mobile phone are just don't have a place to stand. 


There were certainly had the competitor when you try to invent something new and it's popular among the global.  There was a best example in smartphone industry which is Apple VS Android. 

Apple VS Android: Which to take?

There are few aspect that we can looks through the difference between this two company.
The philosophy of these two company are totally different. Apple is looking for the closed system which is only able to used by only Apple user. It wanted the closed appliances tethered to closed ecosystem. However it's different for the Google company which they want the appliance to be open source and what's more important is that the product is connectivity. The company's theory was that if you make browsing by phone easy and fun, people will use it just like a desktop browser, with Google search as the main port of entry. 

In the device part, Apple choose a closed devices. Afterwards, they have come out with the Apps store which include many application that allowed the users to download free or with certain rates. In short, Apple want to have a complete control over platform, content, and also user within their own operating system. 

It's true that Apple are leading smartphone industry until today, as the Apple can be explained the situation: "iPhone: Apple reinvents the phone." However, they had also the big challenge and competitor that coming up, which is Google, or also known as Android. 

In the Android system, they are applying the open and free platform which is based on Linux kernel. Android was a fully customizable system which allowed users to customize themselves. They had millions of independent operating system and application devices which mean that this system didn't have the control over platform, content, and users. 

Will the Android take over Apple? 

Looks into Android, there were 300 000 activation per day,861.5% yearly growth in Android market but also 615% yearly growth in global market share. Unlike Apple, Android are not only apply in one phone but also apply in many others phone such as Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, ZTE, and so on. 

When comparing the smartphone features, there are a definitely go for Android because in my opinion, I think that Android had giving out the freedom to the users to decide what to do but unlike Apple, it's only sharing among themselves. And, Android will giving out another big hit in the smartphone industry which will give a huge challenge to Apple. 

In short, with the invention of the smart phones, I believed that phones were the way people wanted to connect with each other and with everything else rather than using laptop, card or the others way.  In the future, phones were going to replace PC's as the main gateway to the  Internet, and they were going to do it soon. There are always had the competition going, the question is how you going to make it better and maintain but not make it worse. Competition is for improvement. 

Reading based on Roth.D, "Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web."

Facebook & Twitter -- New trend of revolutionaries

From telegraph, tape recorder, and also fax machine had eventually lead to the evolution of the democracy through the Internet. The reason of why the democracy was starting with the social networking sites is because of the immediate aftermath. It's sharing by everyone but the truth is no one is knowing each others.

From the article titled "Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go" by Morozov.E let me understand that social networking nowadays are not only to sharing, connect but also making something happens such as the political changes happened at Tunisia and also Egyptian. Millions of Millions peoples are connected even though they are an unknown to the other person but they have the common bond which they communicate through social networking sites.

In this articles, Facebook and Twitter are the main focus that the both social networking tools are only served as technology tools or a platform that allowed people to perform their freedom of speech. However, in my opinions, this latest technology tools are not the reason that had made the starting of revolutionaries. People will try whatever methods to try what ever they can just to do and spread the news that they want to, doesn't it? Facebook and Twitter can't take the blame of putting the country in danger, but we can said that through the social networking sites, we can actually know that how the public are thinking about the issues nowadays and they are trying to make changes on the conditions to become better.

Even though Internet had become the main environment that we involved and contribute to in our daily life, but  we also have the face to face communication. We couldn't escape the real face communication. The Internet is just like the post office center that send, received and store the messages. However, comes to think about it, how high is the percentage of you to believe the event was actually going on as you have no ideas of what this random people in your Facebook friend's list or your twitter's follower post? It's just a random event conducted by random people. You will not believed that what was happening when you eventually contacted with the people behind the social media.

"We don't have a choice on whether we Do social media , the question is how well we DO it." 

--Erik Qualman

I found out this sentences was really implying on what are we doing now every day on our laptop. We don't really think much when coming to Internet. As what Internet can gives us was not only entertainment but also EXPOSURE. We go for Internet not only for fun but also for how people can notices us, isn't? How many times you will check on how many people expose to your blog, to your Facebook profile, to your Twitter follower, to your LinkedIn connection, your Google+ circles, MSN friends and others more.

The reason of why Facebook and Twitter are been chosen by revolutionaries are because the immediacy of the information but also the high numbers populations of people in this areas. There had a video showing that if Facebook was a country, it was the world 3rd largest or maybe it would be the 1st world largest country as times goes by. But there were also have the competitor at the same time. People loves new things, new trend. When people are bored with the same things, they will go for other new things. For example, when the people had been bored of using social networking sites, they may go the blogger, Wordpress, MySpace or others websites to seek for more entertainment and more purposes uses.

What's is interesting about using social networking sites as the revolution place is that the information are uncensored and it will shared globally or certain areas to access through the information.

In the nutshell, social media are not encouraged for the use in spreading the uprising as at the end everyone have to walk out from the virtual life and make the significant changes in the real life.

Reading based on Morozov.E, "Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go".

Wikileaks--The transparency of Secret

Times Magazine will come out with the "Person of the Year" in every year. In 2010, with the famous trend of social networking sites, Facebook founder, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg had been selected as the "Person of the Year". But at the same time, the runner-up of the list had eventually creates a more global controversial issues which related to the secret document who is the founder of the Wikileaks organization: Julian Assange. 

Wikileaks 

Julian Assange had started his early life as hacker and had been accused by the court. You would be wonder what's the Wikileaks. This video can make you have a clear mind about how this organization works. 

Wikileaks, the online whistle blowing news generating phenomena, the biggest leaking in military document on the global news agenda. 91 thousand classified documents had been exposed to online since 2006 which the contents mainly about the military secret report and videos. In 3 April 2010, there was videos title "Collateral Murder" had been posted up to Youtube by sunshinepress which had get the views of 12,055,637. This is really shocking as the contents of the videos is about an attack at the Iraq by the American army which is been secretly keep in the American government. You can view the video here. 

Wikileaks's server 

Wikileaks had become a revolutionary force. But at the same time, it also be the most wanted organization that the American government as the organization had leaking secret documents to the public. The organization had many servers in different countries which is Iceland, the place they developed the project B which is the "Collateral Murder" video, Sweden with the secure server, Seattle,  France, Belgium and others place. Here is some of the diagrams of the Wikileaks's server places. 

The server were hidden in secret place and moreover, the server place with the computers had been surround by the auto bomb which it will automatically exploded and destroyed the computer when someone wanted to hacked into the system and get the document. The contents that they released are not only about America but also can said is globally.

          The official website of Wikileaks.

Wikileaks: "The future of Journalism?"

Wikileaks didn't works in team but works in with the mass. There are many followers that joined Wikileaks in helping to revealed more and more truth. IT Gorilla without the national place, coffee bar and study room had spread all around the world. Now we wonder where they get all those secret information from? Wikileaks had been collaborate with the mainstream media which is "The New York Times", "theguardian" from UK, and "DER SPIEGE" from German newspaper instead of posting online. 

"Information is important to the world, " said by Julian in a talk at TED Talks. Everyone had the right to know more about what's really happening and also this is one of the job that journalists should be reported. Wikileaks now are not only an organization that revealed more and more secret information. 

In my opinions, I think Wikileaks had make some awareness about the freedom on Internet. Also, Wikileaks had done the right things in revealing the truth as everyone had the right to know more about what's really going on. Wikileaks had let the peoples knows that media nowadays are not really putting their efforts in doing what they should do because mainly they are under government's control which every content had been restricted. In my point of view, I personally think that Wikileaks had give a power to the public and also the pressure to the certain organization. More importantly, it had serves a platform to the injustices event becoming fairly judged.  Wikileaks are more like a sender of the message and spread the truth to the public and let all the peoples around the world judge it.  Wikileaks gives us the freedom of speech!


To know more about Wikileaks, click the video below to know more. The lengths of the videos may be long but please take a looks on it! :)

Further reading: No secret, Julian Assange's mission for total transparency by Raffi Khatchadourian.