RFID and the Internet of Things, 14-16 November, Mediamatic, Amsterdam

RFID & The Internet of Things is a workshop for a maximum of 16 designers and artists who want to learn more about RFID and its possible (cultural) effects and uses.

[...] RFID plays a pivotal role in joining the physical world with the digital. An object tagged with an RFID chip has a unique digital identity. Any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's. Here is where the real world and the internet become two faces of the same reality. Things go online, in other words, an internet of things evolves.

Check out the Reader for RFID Workshop, a collection of projects, theory and criticism on RFID

See also: Thoughts about Blogjects

Blogjects are "only" sources of information if that is all we want from them. Websites were only sources of information once, too, until they became conversational (in a Weinberger/Searls/Locke sort of way way) and changed the way we engage in social discourse, and even had measurable, substantial effect in 1st life politics and further. We know this for a fact. The social web changed things measurably. Can objects, also participating in the same register of discourse, do likewise, and perhaps have impactful effect?

Yep, they can have such an effect. I still remember Peter's complaint about not knowing about the whereabouts of an object (cell phone/iPod?) delivered to him. Now, let's assume we would have blogjects or shouldn't we call it rather a QRSS:). Well I need another post to go further with this...