I can see the point of a site hosting video presentations (or audio, if video is unavailable), and having the PPT, or PDF of the presentation material. Even better, if the PPT or PDF were synchronised with the recorded audio/video, although in practice that is hard to achieve. At least you can click along as appropriate, and get a better resolution than straighr forward video.
Yet, that is still not what this site is about. Also, note that video is still way down on my list of priorities. When I want to learn about something, I have maybe 5 minutes to spend. If I open up a 45 minute seminar presentation, I'll usually shut it down straight away, unless it is some very entertaining speaker, and I feel like goofing off (I did watch Ray Kurzweil's Google seminar recently, for instance). If its a 5 minute YouTube clip, I usually find that it can only cover one essential idea anyway, of the sort that can be explained in 30-60 seconds of reading an HTML page. Usually, I don't watch these either, for the same reason :(. Cheers On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:52:39PM -0700, Tom Johnson wrote: > 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> > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > > Principal, High Performance Coders > > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM > USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
