Hi Richard, thanks and good luck to you! A couple of thoughts on things I would love to see. First of all, if research papers could be associated with discuss

Hi Richard, thanks and good luck to you! A couple of thoughts on things I would love to see. First of all, if research papers could be associated with discussions that would be great. The arXiv is great for math, but you can't ask questions other than e-mailing the author. Imagine that someone posted a paper, and you asked some question "Doesn't XYZ also relate to ABC"?, etc., etc. There is some of this on people's blogs I know but it would be great if there was a lot of this in one place. You might also read http://meta.mathoverflow.net/ http://meta.mathoverflow.net/ -- MathOverflow (mathoverflow.net) is great, but I feel there are a lot of pain points you'll notice there, and there is room to do things which are outside of MO's scope. Also, check out Tim Gowers's blog -- http://gowers.wordpress.com/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/ -- even if you don't know abstract math, it's well worth reading. His math posts lead to the kinds of discussion I would love a more systematic venue for that is not run by a single person. I can more or less speak for my discipline (AMA), but I understand different disciplines have very different cultures! Even CS is quite different from math from what I've heard. Again, good luck to you!