In this book Blais coins the terms "autobotography," personal histories automatically recorded by digital devices such as webcams and blogs, and "executability," an ability of 21st-century expression to operate on computable, social, or legal codes.
[3] Blais and collaborators, including John Bell, Ippolito, and Owen Smith, developed The Pool, an online project design workspace noted by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a "new avenue for new-media scholars to do their jobs."
In place of the single-artist, single-artwork paradigm favored by the overwhelming majority of documentation systems, The Pool stimulates collaboration in a variety of forms, including multi-author, asynchronous, and cross-medium projects.
[6] In 2008 Blais expanded this work from the university to community contexts as a partner and equity member of Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, whose net zero prototype house was the US Green Building Council's 2011 Project of the Year.
Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, Lawrence Lessig, and Carrie McLaren, "Share/Share Alike," Intelligent Agent (New York and Baton Rouge) 4.2 (June 2004), http://www.intelligentagent.com.