{"id":14307,"date":"2026-10-13T21:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:53:19","slug":"matt-neal-stephenson-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?p=14307","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Neal Stephenson Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of sci-fi authors, <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automattic<\/a> is hosting Neal Stephenson for a livestream about <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/47jviKj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his new book soon<\/a>, please tune in!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neal was a big influence on WordPress! I got hip to him from <a href=\"https:\/\/tantek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tantek<\/a>. In the source code of billions of pages you\u2019ll see this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;link rel=\"profile\" href=\"https:\/\/gmpg.org\/xfn\/11\"&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GMPG is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Multimedia_Protocols_Group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Media Protocols Group<\/a>, \u201can <a href=\"https:\/\/gmpg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experiment in Metamemetics<\/a>.\u201d Inspired, of course, by the Global Multimedia Protocol Group that owned the virtual real estate in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_Crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snow Crash\u2019s metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meyerweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric<\/a>, Tantek, and I were reacting to the idea that there should be a separate heavily-marked-up RDF or XML web, and that HTML couldn\u2019t be extended or enriched with metadata in a way that was beautiful to both humans and machines. It was really an aesthetic war. (It later got more built out in <a href=\"https:\/\/microformats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microformats<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We should revisit some of those principles because the web could use more distribution right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of sci-fi authors, Automattic is hosting Neal Stephenson for a livestream about his new book soon, please tune in! Neal was a big influence on WordPress! I got hip to him from Tantek. In the source code of billions of pages you\u2019ll see this: &lt;link rel=&#8221;profile&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/gmpg.org\/xfn\/11&#8243;&gt; GMPG is the Global Media Protocols Group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Uncategorized","link":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?cat=1"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}