- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:24:26 -0400
- To: "WAI-EO" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
An excellent putdown of PowerPoint slideshows, by Edward R. Tufte,
www.edwardtufte.com
summarized as "Powerpoint Phluff."
Ed Tufte is a trenchant critiquer of how information is presented.His books
are excellent -- worth much serious study. Do you remember his "chart junk?"
"Powerpoint has a distinctive, definite, well-enforced, and widely-practiced
cognitive style that is contrary to serious thinking."
See for a prime PP putdown; Peter Norvig's: "The Gettysburg Address" in PP
www.norvig.com
Some essons carry over to the W3C slide-maker.
Regards/Harvey
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