The Perils of PowerPoint
Mulholland, Tom wrote:
For some reason (probably that our organisation has blocked the site) I could not see the original articles that prompted the post. I however immediately assumed that this was precipitated by Tufte and his comments about PowerPoint (I recall seeing a good example of PowerPoint on his site) http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint When this first came up I recall some dispute about the comments www.sociablemedia.com/articles_dispute.htm and that John Fox did something
>http://ils.unc.edu/~jfox/powerpoint/introduction.html that I enjoyed reading. I think that's by a different Fox named Jackson, not John. It's an interesting reading, though. Duncan Murdoch
Other links that are lying on my computer are "In defense of PowerPoint" http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_defense_of_powerp.html and "Does PowerPoint make you stupid?" at http://www.presentations.com/presentations/delivery/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000482464 Tom
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Tim Churches Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:08 AM To: ted.harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk Cc: Achim Zeileis; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint (Ted Harding) wrote:
By the way, the Washington Post/Minneapolis Star Tribune article is somewhat reminiscent of a short (15 min) broadcast on BBC Radio 4 back on October 18 2004 15:45-16:00 called "Microsoft Powerpoint and the Decline of Civilisation" which explores similar themes and also frequently quotes Tufte. Unfortunately it lapsed for ever from "Listen Again" after the statutory week, so I can't point you to a replay. (However, I have carefully preserved the cassette recording I made).
Try http://sooper.org/misc/powerpoint.mp3 (copyright law notwithstanding...) Tim C
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