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Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>,jcowan@r...
• Subject: Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:10:33 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3E1212D0-2F2E-11D8-9780-000A95A51C9E@t...>
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At 13:41 15.12.2003, Tim Bray wrote:
>So my slides now have a lot more pictures; in fact if I can't illustrate 
>something I usually won't make a slide for it.  I believe this has two 
>effects: (a) the presentations are more entertaining.  (b) the slides are 
>less useful as collateral to distribute later. -Tim

Hmmm....so your best slides are based on pictures whose structure is not 
captured by the markup.

I like your slides a lot, so this is not a criticism, just a way of 
categorizing the data you gave.

Jonathan 

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