== Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wr...@iki.fi)'s article > > The "presentation software format" is more restrictive than we usually > think. Everything has to be crunched to ridiculous screenfuls, mostly > containing a couple of bullet items. And if you want the audience to > follow the presentation "where you are" you have to do all kinds of > one-at-a-time appearing bullets. It's really pathetic. (And I, at least, > end up spending inordinate time figuring should they fly in from the > left or rignt, or should they "emerge", or whatever.) Instead of simply > scrolling them into view when needed. ... > PP is for M$ style sales pitches, not for disseminating serious content. > IMNSHO, of course. (And the less there's bread and butter, the more you > can decorate, having everybody exit, aahing and oohing all the way home.) > And how do you present conveniently a code snippet that exceeds a > screenful?
When I went back to finish my degree I was forced to take a Public Speaking course, and the course basically had one simple message: The likelihood that an audience will either get lost or bored is an exponential function of the complexity of the presentation. As much as I despise the PP- based presentation format, it does force the speaker to simplify things as much as possible.