Synonyms for "blogject"

By at 5:20 am Sunday, Apr 16

Here's a list of words that various people have used to describe blogjects -- objects that produce a vapor-trail of Internet data, objects that exist as 3D data and are produced to order, objects that are made and remade. As a vocabulary lesson it's pretty hypnotic.
acculturated objects
actual / virtual / fictional objects
ambiguous objects
appropriated / reappropriated objects
augmented objects
autonomous objects
banal objects
blobjects
boundary objects
bridging objects
by-products
chindogu
co-created objects
co-existent objects
collaborative designed objects
commodities / comm-oddities
computationally enabled objects
container-objects
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