Design conferences such as Lift and Where 2.0 feature the latest blogjects, mashups, and distributed narrative installations.

This week, we are supposed to think about the power of metaphor in propagating a message of salvation or destruction about the future; what opening up education means to us, and the "Internet of Things", when "the who" telling the story is not a "who", but a thing that blogs, a blogject, and how its perspective circulates culture and carries ethical, social and political ramifications.

I’m eager to find a way that the object can somehow collate a history of some sort that gives an indication as to its state-of-mind, where you translate instrumental registers of state-of-mind (where have I been? how long was I there? where should I be? have I been tossed about? am I inside or outside?), for experiential ones, couched in a bed of character-driven narrative, then disseminated in a way that gives the Spime/Object/Blobject/Blogject a sense of being.