For questions about the community blog.
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Status of Our Community Blog
What is the status of our community blog? There haven't been any new posts in about 5 months.
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Latex not rendered when reading blog-posts in Google Reader
It works when I view the blog directly, but not in Google Reader. Can anything be done about it?
Edit: As suggested, I posted the question at meta.stackoverflow.
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CSTheory blog still not being regularly aggregated
As a quick update for those who haven't noticed, the CSTheory blog is being only irregularly aggregated by the TOC blog aggregator. For example, my post two posts ago was aggregated, but the current ...
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Next steps for blog design
First, let me point out that a viewer's needs and actions are fundamentally different when viewing CSTheory and when reading the blog. Most of the questions posted on CSTheory are a few short ...
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Next steps in building the blog
My point in posting this question is to talk about increasing daily/weekly views, and general TCS community presence. The quality of posts so far has been excellent, from a diverse group of people, ...
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Adding the community blog to researchblogging.org
http://www.researchblogging.org is an agregator for research blogs (or in particular, an aggregator for blogposts that cite peer-reviewed articles). Many of our posts cite research papers and deal ...
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Why does our blog not show up on front page of blogoverflow?
I've been visiting http://blogoverflow.com/ occasionally and noticed that our community blog stopped showing up. How is membership on the front page decided?
To the community: do we care if we show ...
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Pages for the Community Blog
The About Page of the Community Blog still looks sketchy. Joe and I could put together some text for it. Beyond that, though, I'd like to ask what additional pages, if any, might be useful.
One ...
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Cross-posting Cstheory Blog Posts
If we write a blog post for the cstheory community blog, may we crosspost the same post to our own blog as well, with both posts pointing to each other?
I noticed this issue was discussed in the ...
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Using the blog for job posts and conference announcements
This is just an idea. How about using the blog for job posts and/or conference announcements? Of course, only theory stuff. The DMANET mailing list is doing the same thing, but you always find stuff ...
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First anniversary commemorative blog post: ideas ?
Kaveh reminds us all that Aug 16 is the first anniversary of the cstheory site. To celebrate, we're preparing a blog post.
What are highlights/lowlights from the first year that you think are worth ...
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Add a link to the community blog
This is a feature request to the Stack Exchange engine.
Currently the top page of the site does not contain a link to the community blog. I think that it should.
I expected that the link labeled ...
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Text of blog post gets erased when image is inserted
I have unfortunately been able to reproduce this bug, so I have lost work twice. The first time I included an image in the middle of the text. The second time I included an image at the beginning of ...
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Blog broken — fills screen with garbage characters
When I go to http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/ I get a screenfull of garbage characters. Viewing the page source is the same: it looks like the site is returning a binary file rather than html. Any ...
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feature-requests for the blog: OpenID and threading for comments
I. OpenId, OpenId commenting.
This is requested by users. It would allow them to comment using the same OpenID they are using for SE.
II. Support for threaded commenting.
Comment threading makes ...
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Link rel-alternate for blog feed
This is a question asked in a blog comment by David Eppstein.
Is there a reason for not having a “link rel=alternate” pointer to the feed? Yes, there’s a “Subscribe via RSS” link on the page, ...
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Length and level of formality for community blog
We have already discussed the general scope of the blog, and there seems to be some ideas as to what it is. Now that we are starting to write posts, I thought it would be nice to figure out the more ...
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LaTeX support in community blog
Not sure if this should be separate from the other blog-related threads. I started fooling around with the new blog and drafting a post. However, I can't seem to get LaTeX to work... I am not an ...
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CSTheory Blog Announcement and Signup Sheet
July 21st: The first technical post is now up, Quantum query complexity, by Artem Kaznatcheev.
July 16th: The first blog post is now up, here.
This is not so much a question as an ...
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Community blogging
The SE folks are providing the opportunity to create a community blog to showcase discussions on the site. They've outlined a number of steps that a community could take in order to get this going, ...
