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Former Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble revisits the campus and blogs about a Microsoft Research project that he says was so inspiring that he literally cried. Should the rest of us consider his response nauseating, or a natural reaction to the Next Big Thing? We'll apparently have to wait to find out. Scoble's post suggests it will be made public Feb. 27.

In the meantime, I inquired about the project, to see if Microsoft discloses any details. I'll update this post depending on the response.

The researchers named in Scoble's post, Jonathan Fay and Curtis Wong, are in Microsoft Research's Next Media group, which explores "what new consumer media experiences are possible with the growth in computing power, connectivity and storage in a compelling, elegant and transparent way in the 3 to 10 year timeframe," according to the Microsoft site.

Related: Valleywag: Great moments in PR: Scoble has yet another world-changing secret: "Unsolicited advice, Robby: If you have an embargoed piece of information, don't talk about it until you can talk about it. You're not building buzz, you're killing it in advance by sending people's imaginations soaring in the wrong directions."

Origami, anyone?