Why powerpoint is susceptable to abuse, or, Gettysburg Address in PPT

[jack]

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld001.htm

[vivid green]
NOT ON AGENDA:

Dedicate
Consecrate
Hallow (in narrow sense)
Add or detract
Note or rememebr what we say

Also see: http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf which is quite funny.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You're right, I hadn't read the article, just seen the link. It does look very much it means 'no ppt'. I was careful to put 'succeptable to abuse' not 'bad' in my title.

One thing the second misses, is that their Gettysburg ppt is a bad one, but it COULD be good. IIRC political speeches of that era often were thought out and logically organised, so presenting an outline visually would be a good idea, provided the outline was thought up by, say, a good orator, not someone who's scared that the templates provided have a magical validity and departing from them is bad practice.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Erm, the Gettysburg is the first one isn't it?

But yes I agree. Having said that most of the attack seems to be directed at the template options rather than anything else. But the second spells the problem out in a much more reasoned and sensible tone.