Monday, October 25, 2010

POWERpoint -- JK

To start off, I've always really liked power points. I always liked watching them and creating them. I think they are better then a poster board and they move a lot more smoothly as well. I completely disagree with the quote,
"Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure."
Tufte is making general statements about power point. If an audience is bored it could be that maybe it's not flashy enough. Sure flash can only cover so much, but some topics are just plain boring and no power point can bring them to life.
Tufte really just sounds bitter to me. It sounds like he is just attacking power point.
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  1. PhilOctober 28, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    Tufte is certainly bitter, and is definitely on the attack here. You point to a curious inconsistency in his logic. If he really believes that content outweighs "decoration," then the medium of Power Point should't even matter very much, because the message would shine through, anyway.

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