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   Re: [xml-dev] The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

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On Dec 15, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:

>> So my slides now have a lot more pictures; in fact if I can't 
>> illustrate something I usually won't make a slide for it.  I believe 
>> this has two effects: (a) the presentations are more entertaining.  
>> (b) the slides are less useful as collateral to distribute later. 
>> -Tim
>
> Hmmm....so your best slides are based on pictures whose structure is 
> not captured by the markup.

Absolutely.  I am abandoning the pretense that the slide deck captures 
the *content* of my presentation.  The slides are a visual aid, that's 
all.

Cheers, Tim Bray  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/





 

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