Well, I'm rather cheesed off that he wants $7 for the essay . . .
(pamphleteering is *SO* 20th century!) If he wanted to speak to Digital
Natives, he'd have been better off to give it away . . .
Grumble, grumble,
Marcy
--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:46 PM -0500 Mary-Louise Craven
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> Hi Jamie...I couldn't agree more with your assessment. This piece of
> Tufte's writing is on my course required reading list this year! He's
> on my all-time-great-writers/illustrators list.
> mary-louise
>
>
> Jamie MacKinnon wrote:
> >
> > Hello chatelain(e)s,
> >
> > I can't recommend highly enough Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of
> > PowerPoint (Graphics Press, 2003, www.edwardtufte.com
> > <http://www.edwardtufte.com> ). It is a concise (28-page) critique of
> > PowerPoint technology. It will be of interest, I think, to anyone
> > interested in the medium / technology, as well as to anyone interested
> > in the power of pamphleteering.
> >
> > It confirmed my prejudices, but I **still** liked it.
> >
> > (Chatelain(e)s are people who live in caslls.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jamie MacKinnon
> >
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