http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
“Powerpoint is Evil” by Edward Tufte
If anyone understands the visual display of information, it’s Tufte.
Have you ever seen Tufte brief? I haven’t but I’ve heard that he uses OTHER tools the same as one might use PowerPoint. So I’d remind folks... that guns don’t kill, people do.
Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki had to endure too many inept PPT presentations so he came up with his 10-20-30 rule: 10 slides in 20 minutes using 30 point fonts.
Link to his blog post: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html#axzz0mJYpUUpX
I agree with him. Instead of being an effective tool; people are using it to create illusions and dumb from school children to us down.
I second that. Tufte does a traveling one-day seminar that I attended a few years back, and he packed the hall.
He did a brisk business selling his wares to his nerd groupies, such as myself. He autographed my copy of Minard's graphic of Napoleon's losses during the Russian campaign of 1812.