{"id":2260,"date":"2003-05-18T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2003-05-18T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=444"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:59:44","slug":"the-evils-of-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/18\/the-evils-of-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evils of PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, graphics guru Edward Tufte<\/a> put out a small pamphlet on The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint<\/a>. Although I haven’t seen it myself, comments have been quite positive; it seems everybody agrees about the generally dismal state of PowerPoint presentations.<\/p>\n

Halley<\/a> points at another<\/a> anti-PowerPoint book, which also looks interesting. And she also links to the Gettysburg Address<\/a> PowerPoint presentation, which is both funny and interesting. (As an aside, the full text of Lincoln’s speech is given at the end, and I was surprised to notice that I’d never read it before; only the first and last paragraphs seem to be usually cited.)<\/p>\n

Let’s face it, hearing someone read off bulleted lines in the usual droning tone is nearly as boring as seeing other people’s baby pictures. I remember fondly Edwin Estrada, who used to be Apple’s developer contact for Latin America, always skipping forward dozens of slides in the official Apple presentations while muttering “marketing – blah blah – marketing – fluff – marketing – you don’t need to read this”. Few people can pull this off with such aplomb; unfortunately, Edwin seems to have left Apple a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, graphics guru Edward Tufte put out a small pamphlet on The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. Although I haven’t seen it myself, comments have been quite positive; it seems everybody agrees about the generally dismal state of PowerPoint presentations. Halley points at another anti-PowerPoint book, which also looks interesting. And she also links to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-As","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}