Comments on: How Would The Civil War Have Ended If Lincoln Had PowerPoint?

By: Patent Baristas

Patent Baristas — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:51 +0000

Blawg Review #19

Welcome to the Dog Days of Summer and Blawg Review #19, hosted this week by the Patent Baristas. We’re always glad to have company over so grab a cup of joe and we’ll see what’s been going on around…

By: Patent Baristas

Patent Baristas — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:21:01 +0000

Blawg Review #19

By: gino

gino — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:16:45 +0000

If you like this, be sure to check out Tufte's 'The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint' - an excellent, elegant, hilarious read on this topic. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

By: fakeGeek

fakeGeek — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:53:56 +0000

Independence of Pakistan if M.A.Jinnah had PowerPoint

Fist and foremost folks happy independence day. I just found this article hilarious. What would have…

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:51:43 +0000

if I remember correctly, this PPT made the rounds of the blogosphere about three years ago. I guess you can do a lot of catching up whilst on vacation

By: Ken Dyck

Ken Dyck — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:33:42 +0000

I like Donald Norman's take on Powerpoint: "Is PowerPoint bad? No, in fact, it is quite a useful tool. Boring talks are bad. Poorly structured talks are bad. Don't blame the problem on the tool."

By: Brian Azzopardi

Brian Azzopardi — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:06:21 +0000

An excellent presenter can hold his audience just by his speech and delivery.

This, of course, assumes that the audience is not a bunch of kids whose idea of insightful analysis is Fox News.

By: Jack Krupansky

Jack Krupansky — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:29:37 +0000

“…there are good powerpoints and bad ones…”, and us mere mortals only get to see the bad ones.

We need to be careful here… this borders on the edge of arguing that text can be a better presentation medium than graphics. That’s *not* “Digitally Correct” thinking.

Maybe the Federal Government could have a per-pixel, per-presentation, per-viewer *tax* on power-point presentations. It would raise lots of money to help fix the budget deficit and pay down the national debt and (or?) be an absolute godsend to business audiences everywhere. Can I count on your support?

– Jack Krupansky

By: Dave Jilk

Dave Jilk — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:48:45 +0000

Like broadcast television, business presentations have evolved to satisfy the least common denominator of their audiences. Most people haven’t the attention span, vocabulary, or thoughfulness to pay attention to, much less appreciate a well-written speech.

That said, there are good powerpoints and bad ones…