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The Gettysburg address in PowerPoint

RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
In particular, see the "Making Of" link at the bottom.
- alexgartrell 17y ago
  http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html
  - mseebach 17y ago
    On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people see that presentation every year. Lincoln had a crowd of just 15.000 at Gettyburg. Surely, PowerPoint is a superior medium by many orders of magnitude.
    - RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
      > On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people > see that presentation every year. Are you sure? It seems to me to say that from 2000 to 2006 a total of 1.5 million saw it, not 1.5m/year. If I'm wrong please let me know ...
      - mseebach 17y ago
        Yeah, you're right, it's accumulative. But it doesn't change the fact that the PowerPoint version obviously have a significantly larger impact than old dudes speech. He didn't even use a microphone, go figure.
        thingie 17y ago
        Depends. Makes 1.5 million of random internet visitors more impact than 15 thousand of quite enthusiastic listeners? Well. I don't think so :o)
    - julius_geezer 17y ago
      A bit like an old chestnut I remember: the woman says that her son is smarter than Lincoln: the boy could recite the Gettysburg address at age 8, while it took Lincoln until he was over 40.
dantheman 17y ago
I highly recommend this: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp It's too bad he hasn't released it for free, but it's highly worth reading if you do presentations.
patio11 17y ago
On the subject of PowerPoint humor, quite possibly my favorite complaint letter of all time: Yours Is A Very Bad Hotel. http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/yours-is-a-very-bad-hotel-97480 http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/yours-is-a-very-bad-...
- 1amzave 17y ago
  A few years ago I saw David Byrne do a great presentation entitled "I ♥ PowerPoint". I don't think his slides are available online (at least not that I can find), but one of the high points was when he borrowed some slides from this: http://www.artofoffice.com/PowerPoint/The-PowerPoint-Anthology-of-Literature http://www.artofoffice.com/PowerPoint/The-PowerPoint-Antholo...

In particular, see the "Making Of" link at the bottom.

alexgartrell 17y ago
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html
- mseebach 17y ago
  On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people see that presentation every year. Lincoln had a crowd of just 15.000 at Gettyburg. Surely, PowerPoint is a superior medium by many orders of magnitude.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
    > On that page it is stated that 1,5 mio. people > see that presentation every year. Are you sure? It seems to me to say that from 2000 to 2006 a total of 1.5 million saw it, not 1.5m/year. If I'm wrong please let me know ...
    - mseebach 17y ago
      Yeah, you're right, it's accumulative. But it doesn't change the fact that the PowerPoint version obviously have a significantly larger impact than old dudes speech. He didn't even use a microphone, go figure.
      - thingie 17y ago
        Depends. Makes 1.5 million of random internet visitors more impact than 15 thousand of quite enthusiastic listeners? Well. I don't think so :o)
  - julius_geezer 17y ago
    A bit like an old chestnut I remember: the woman says that her son is smarter than Lincoln: the boy could recite the Gettysburg address at age 8, while it took Lincoln until he was over 40.

I highly recommend this: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp It's too bad he hasn't released it for free, but it's highly worth reading if you do presentations.

patio11 17y ago

On the subject of PowerPoint humor, quite possibly my favorite complaint letter of all time: Yours Is A Very Bad Hotel. http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/yours-is-a-very-bad-hotel-97480 http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/yours-is-a-very-bad-...

1amzave 17y ago
A few years ago I saw David Byrne do a great presentation entitled "I ♥ PowerPoint". I don't think his slides are available online (at least not that I can find), but one of the high points was when he borrowed some slides from this: http://www.artofoffice.com/PowerPoint/The-PowerPoint-Anthology-of-Literature http://www.artofoffice.com/PowerPoint/The-PowerPoint-Antholo...