What’s Wrong With PowerPoint?
Visited 2605 Times Published by Rico July 12th, 2007 in Computers, Tech and What. 
Muhammad shows why you should omit needless words, comparing a 2-hour oration(!) by Edward Everett to the 2 minute Gettysburg Address by someone named Abraham Lincoln.
Too much of a good thing is always bad however. Take away too many words and you’re left with nothing, as Peter Norvig’s Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation hilariously illustrates. Read the complete speech, and you’ll see what you’re missing.
I guess my real question is, with PowerPoint and all this presentation technology at our disposal, is the art of conveying just with the spoken word dead?
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I have a question: What’s wrong with Powerpoint, the 2007 Edition?
Ease of use versus teething problems surfaced the first I used it. I know it’s off-topic, I apologize.
Hmmm… I should try it out. I’ve already used Word and Excel 2007, but not PowerPoint.