{"id":3263,"date":"2010-09-01T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2010-09-01T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T23:23:07","slug":"stephenson-subutai-the-mongoliad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Stephenson, Subutai, The Mongoliad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-01-at-5.13.14-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3265 aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-09-01 at 5.13.14 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-01-at-5.13.14-PM-300x195.png\" alt=\"Head of a Mongol\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Slashdot I have been poking around a project that one of my favorite sci-fi authors is involved in, namely the serially online published project <a href=\"http:\/\/mongoliad.com\/\">The Mongoliad<\/a>.This work is being supported by a company Stephenson helped create called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subutai.mn\/\">Subutai Corporation<\/a> that has developed a platform called PULP for digital novels that have social aspects and multimedia extensions. The platform looks a lot like a structured wiki. The first materials for The Mongoliad are up and smartphone apps are supposed to be coming. I found it hard to read off the web, but I tend to like my sci-fi on pulp.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how they explore the medium for this multi-authored novel.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/external\/venturebeat\/2010\/09\/01\/01venturebeat-writer-neal-stephenson-unveils-his-digital-n-97561.html\">a good story on the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Slashdot I have been poking around a project that one of my favorite sci-fi authors is involved in, namely the serially online published project The Mongoliad.This work is being supported by a company Stephenson helped create called Subutai Corporation that has developed a platform called PULP for digital novels that have social aspects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephenson, Subutai, The Mongoliad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext-fiction","category-literature","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}