On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote: > In my experience, slides are mainly useful: > > 1. To convey information which is difficult to express accurately by voice > only (e.g. graphs, names of drafts, big numbers)
Yup. > 2. To distract the e-mail-reading audience in the room so that they look up > and pay attention. YES! (Crap, I thought we were supposed to keep that purpose a secret!) And no way am I uploading my jokes in advance and having people see them in advance - it ruins the joke completely! Sheesh, they're barely funny enough as is. > An example of (2) can be found in > <http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/87/slides/slides-87-dnsop-8.pdf> where I > presented a one-slide problem statement that consisted entirely filled with > an xkcd cartoon. Huh, who knew DNS Ops was rocket science? :) (I like the hack idea, btw... mostly because I like your xkcd cartoon, of course) > Many people use slideware as a teleprompter so that they can remember what to > say at the mic. I've done that before. I'm not proud of it. Yeah me too, but I'd prefer people pay attention to what I say, rather than the text on the slides. -hadriel
