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At 6:43 PM -0500 3/8/03, Mike Champion wrote:
>The presentations from the W3C tech plenary Wednesday seem to be online
I'm glad these talks were useful for the people who were there.
However, they were completely meaningless to me. I'm noticing a
disturbing trend to publish only PowerPoint or equivalent slides from
important presentations. This is the second batch I've seen come into
my Inbox this morning.
Slides of this nature are a useful tool to accompany an oral
presentation. However, they leave out far too much to be useful or
interesting to those of us who didn't attend. Steven Pemberton's talk
in particular sounds like it may have been a very important session.
I wish I had been there. However, there's almost nothing in his notes
to tell us what he said and why he said it. OK, "xmlns:mumble bla bla
bla ginger" was funny, but there must have been more to the talk than
this?
If a transcript, summary, audio or video recording, prepared paper,
or other more appropriate format is not available, then there's
really no point to mentioning the session here.
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