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 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Mary-Louise Craven York University -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-