Good PPTs will often (should?) have URLs embedded that can take you to
additional resources and sometimes audios of the presentation.  Yeah, I
agree, it would be better to have the audio and video in the same package,
and there are, increasingly, programs that let one do that, but so far they
are not cheap.

-tom johnson

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote:

> What is the point of this site? Death by PowerPoint?
>
> I read a presentation if there is absolutely no other form of the
> information, and I'm desparate for it, but give me an HTML page
> (optimised for web reading) or a PDF white paper in preference. Heck,
> even those dreadful Youtube video clips are preferable to trying to
> divine meaning from a Powerpoint presentation.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:16:08AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > Wow, I just noticed an additional stunt on their site: your "saved files"
> > page which keeps a reference to each of the slide sets you've downloaded.
> >  Probably they also include sets you've "read" on their site.  Next
> they'll
> > have a kindle app or some such.
> >
> > I bet I'm the last one on the list to have seen this!  So much stuff out
> > there!
> >
> >    -- Owen
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently
> > > they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences
> > > targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for
> > > "products you might also like" on checkout.
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
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