If you're not moblogging yet - you may want to start. Pigeon Blog first featured at the Inter Society for  Electronic Arts aims is already outfitting birds with small cellphone like devices which will monitor the air quality and pollution levels in whatever area they happen to be flying in. Not only is this a first for "avian blogs" it could develop into a real time atmospheric monitoring solution for individual users. Are you moblogging yet, the pigeons already are:)

20 pigeons will initially released into the air, each offering a unique perspective on local atmospheric conditions with measurements being transmitted into a real time index. Beatriz da Costa the project director eventually envisions similar flocks in cities across the country and views this as a great way of highlighting environmental issues and eco-living.

What comes after this you might ask?

Da Costa has undertaken a larger “Air” initiative, as part of the art-technology-activism collective Preemptive Media, to create prototype portable air quality monitoring kits that consumers could use. Attention, D-I-Y types—Da Costa and her graduate student assistants, Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto, plan to make their development process open source (i.e., accessible to any programmer) and distribute it for free online, so that anyone who’s tech-savvy can take widely-available devices, like cell phones, and adapt them to collect pollution data in their own neighborhoods and communities. “Scientific information is usually distributed in a top down, hierarchical approach,” da Costa says. “This is tactical technology—a way of building our own circuits.” And figuring out from street level up what’s in the air.

The original article also has a nice discussion on exactly WHAT those grey areas on the pigeons may mean. Any guesses? Regardless, this does win my award for "most bizarre mobile blogging project yet."

Via  Plentymag and Smartmobs.