Comments on: Polymath = user innovation http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How XML Threatens Big Data « Dataspora http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-162605 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:27:01 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-162605 [...] have (as JSON and SQLite’s file format do), than to fabricate new ones from whole cloth. As John Udell says, “good-enough solutions [that are] here now, and familiar to people, often trump great [...]

]]> By: Democratizing design « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-143030 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:09:22 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-143030 [...] for me back in 2005. I cited it in a couple of InfoWorld columns and continue to cite it in blog posts. Here’s how I originally summarized the [...]

]]> By: Bryce http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-134507 Tue, 04 May 2010 19:11:29 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-134507 [...]The answer is that I needed (and still need) to be reminded that good-enough solutions here now, and familiar to people, often trump great solutions that aren’t here and wouldn’t be familiar if they were.[...]

I think that’s the moral to be learned from my haphazard and almost unintentional deployment of a groupware solution which piggybacked on top of a document management solution. If you still have an interest in these types of things, have a gander at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Lessons_Learned:_Scientists,_Distributed_Teams,_and_Groupware

(Reading only the executive summary and conclusions will give you the gist and save a bit of time) If you have any suggestions, please feel invited to make them either in the document itself or on the discussion tab.

]]> By: Christine Ashton http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-131066 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:13:29 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-131066 I am glad they want to serve a niche group. Too often the “little people” are left out.

]]> By: math and latex test « Josh's Trial Blog http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129955 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:02:07 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129955 [...] and latex test Easy AdSense by UnrealAt the end of July, Jon Udell posted this to his blog on using LaTeX in WordPress. Since this prompted me to get interested because of a [...]

]]> By: Purple Numbers for PDF documents? « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129945 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:52:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129945 [...] recently observed what happened when the old-fashioned non-XML method of math typesetting was supported by WordPress.com, I have to ask: How much more mileage might we be getting out of the existing print-oriented [...]

]]> By: How XML Threatens Big Data : Dataspora Blog http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129936 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:47:21 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129936 [...] have (as JSON and SQLite’s file format do), than to fabricate new ones from whole cloth. As John Udell says, “good-enough solutions [that are] here now, and familiar to people, often trump great [...]

]]> By: Drew Burton http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129919 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:46:33 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129919 MathJax is a rewrite of jsMath mentioned above. If things go well it will be used to display research math translated from TeX into html this fall.

]]> By: Linkage for Sunday « billpetti http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129896 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129896 [...] Crowdsourcing answers to the toughest problems in mathematics. [...]

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129864 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:21:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129864 > I’m slightly confused. Polymath?

Yeah, it’s admittedly an overloading of the term.

]]> By: Mackenzie http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129863 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:00:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129863 I’m slightly confused. Polymath? But polymath means “Renaissance Man” without the gender implications. Why is it being used here to mean just math?

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129860 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:20:04 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129860 Thanks for getting in touch, Jonathan. I like how you characterize the MathTran service as “Flickr for formulas”.

I notice that the service is copyright 2006-2009. So it seems that, at least since 2006, it has been possible to invoke TeX and include rendered images basically anywhere?

Wow.

]]> By: Jonathan Fine http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129856 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:48:00 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129856 I have a talk at the UK Unix Users Group meeting a couple of days ago that is all about putting TeX into the shared spaces of the web (and I quote Jon Udell’s post).

Here’s the URL for the talk:
http://mathtran.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mathtran/trunk/docs/mainstream_tex/ukuug2009.pdf

Here’s the ULR for the UKUUG conference:
http://summer2009.ukuug.org/

]]> By: Danius Michaelides http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129781 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:32:57 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129781 I’m surprised nobody has mentioned jsMath:

http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/

Its an entirely client-side approach to rendering latex maths. Very simple to add to a website but can be a bit slow in non-modern browsers.

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/31/polymath-equals-user-innovatio/#comment-129780 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:02:01 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1813#comment-129780 > We created a Javascript WYSIWYG MathML
> Editor

So I see. Wow. Nice work!

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