In Defense of PowerPoint
  • Death by Slides   feedback   Trevor Cook weblog   Richard Arundel   and again   and again
  • Alison Sulentic, Adventures in PowerPoint, The Law Teacher, (teach with punched-up visual aids and see the difference)
  • Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint (also PowerPoint Is Evil, Does PowerPoint make us stupid?)
  • Jim Macnamara, The Modern Presenter's Handbook
  • Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts (New Yorker 2001 May 28; before there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights)
  • Don Watson, The 2003 National Trust Heritage Lecture, National Trust Centre, 2003 November 11 (by the author of Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language)
  • Trevor Cooke, Death by slides: say it, don't show it, Australian Financial Review, 2003 November 15 (presentations are one of those ubiquitous rituals of modern corporations that have attained iconic status)
  • David Weinberger, The Real Role of PowerPoint, Worthwhile, 2004 April 9
  • Don Watson, The Orwellian nightmare, The Sunday Mail, 2004 January 4 (a blurb for his book (above))
  • John Naughton, How PowerPoint can fatally weaken your argument, The Observer, 2003 December 21 (as an addiction of the white-collar classes, PowerPoint ranks second only in perniciousness to cocaine)
  • Sue Cant, Power, up to a Point, The Age, 2004 January 26 (it has given confidence to mediocre public speakers, captivated the business world and was recently implicated as one of the many factors leading to last year's Columbia space shuttle crash)
  • David Hambling, Robot wars, The Guardian, 2004 February 5 (what looks like a model aircraft is actually a robot that can independently seek out and destroy targets, but the final decision to fire will still remain in the hands of humans)
  • Daniel Etherington, Blaming the dark side of gaming, BBC, 2004 February 7 (it is trite and irresponsible to accuse video games of promoting violence)
  • Eric Wilson, PowerPoint rules university's self-paced training, The Age, 2004 February 24 (PowerPoint's flexibility makes it a favourite among teachers)
  • Eric Wilson, Beyond the blckboard, The Age, 2004 March 2 (a little creative PowerPointing can go a long way in education)
  • Powerpointless? (a very rich link list on PowerPoint)