{"id":6793,"date":"2015-07-19T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2015-07-19T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:04:16","slug":"state-of-operations-research-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/19\/state-of-operations-research-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Operations Research Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been almost a year since I had a blog entry here. \u00a0Not that I don’t have a lot to say! \u00a0I am using twitter<\/a> more, and I do have ideas for blog entries in cases where 140 characters is not enough. \u00a0But there is limited time.<\/p>\n

But I think something more fundamental is at work. \u00a0What is the state of blogging, and, in particular, the operations research blogging world? \u00a0It doesn’t appear all that healthy to me, but perhaps I am not seeing things correctly.<\/p>\n

I think the blogging world was badly hurt by the cancellation of Google Reader. \u00a0At least for me, Google Reader was a fast a convenient way to follow the blogging world. \u00a0And, beyond me, I had creating a public list of OR Blogs, and a public feed of OR blog entries. \u00a0It seemed to be well used, but those ended with the end of Reader. It is harder to get word out about OR blogging.<\/p>\n

I have tried to continue aspects of these listings on this page with a feed <\/a>of OR blogs (also in sidebar) but it is much less convenient.<\/p>\n

I also think the relentless onslaught of comment spam discouraged (and perhaps still discourages) people from trying out blogging.<\/p>\n

Today I went through my list of OR blogs to see who has posted in the past year, and was distressed to see how few have done so. \u00a0Even with a pretty broad view of what an OR Blog is, it came to only about 40 people<\/a>, with many of those (including myself!) barely meeting the “posted in the last year” requirement.<\/p>\n

Those that remain are a fantastic source of information. \u00a0I think particularly of Laura McLay’s Punk Rock Operations Research<\/a> and Anna Nagurney’s RENeW<\/a> as must-read entries. \u00a0But there now seem to be few active bloggers.<\/p>\n

Am I missing a ton of entries in the OR Blogging world \u00a0(let me know if I am missing some from my list<\/a>)? \u00a0Has the world of twitter taken over from the long-form journalism that blogging provides?<\/p>\n

In any case, I will make an effort to write more and welcome thoughts about how to strengthen the OR blogging community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been almost a year since I had a blog entry here. \u00a0Not that I don’t have a lot to say! \u00a0I am using twitter more, and I do have ideas for blog entries in cases where 140 characters is not enough. \u00a0But there is limited time. But I think something more fundamental is … Continue reading “State of Operations Research Blogging”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}