Please, do not blame PowerPoint for a poorly prepared or delivered talk. Blame the person who developed the presentation and the person who delivered the talk. PowerPoint is a tool. It can use used well or it can be used poorly. If I may quote a once popular newspaper cartoon character, Pogo, "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us". John
John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 410-605-7119 - NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Mulholland, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/06 2:26 AM >>> 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. 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Churches > Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Achim Zeileis; r-help@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
