Blogging Roller: Powerpoint makes you dumb.

Powerpoint makes you dumb.

Edward Tufte's Cognitive Style of PowerPoint made the rounds a number of months ago in blogspace. Now, the $7 article is featured in the NY Times article <a href= "http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html?ex=1071982800&en=799ad449b398c2d7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE"> PowerPoint Makes You Dumb. I'm working on a Roller presentation and I don't want to make anybody dumb, so I just ordered a copy.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 04:51AM Dec 15, 2003

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I use OpenOffice. You can do export in HTML, PDF and Flash... Cool feature if you want to publish on the web.

Posted by OOo on December 15, 2003 at 01:48 PM EST #

I used Open Office to write and illustrate the original Roller article and I played with the Open Office presentation app as well. It is a clone of PowerPoint and I presume it, in Tufte's view, shares the same flaws.

Posted by Dave Johnson on December 15, 2003 at 04:07 PM EST #

Actually the content and style of Edward Tufts essays seem to closely resemble the Head First Java or Head First EJB books... Read the sample chapter from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava/

Posted by Steve on December 17, 2003 at 05:26 PM EST #