On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:44:56 -0700, "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bryan Murdock wrote: > >>>Seriously, if you're just going to speak your slides, you're doing > >>>something wrong. And if you're not going to speak your slides, you're > >>>not spoiling anything by leaving out the fade-ins etc.
> >I don't know if these transitions were judicious or not, but the > >presentation is fairly entertaining: > > > >http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ > If you look at the last slide he thanks Larry Lessig (of Creative > Commons) for influencing the presentation style. Anyone who saw Lessig > present last year at USU will see the similarities, though this guy's > was a bit more dizzying. Cool presentation. Yes, that's a nice gimmick, but if you pay attention it becomes clear that the transitions (and words themselves) are quite superfluous. He could speak his presentation quite well, using the same pictures, but minus the echoed words, and it would be just as effective. (Probably more so, since you see in the few shots of the presenter that he's basically talking to his laptop so he can keep his speech synced with the words on the slides.) -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
