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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