Mary Meeker's Entire Bummer PowerPoint on Her Internet Outlook

good overview of how things happened BEFORE.

but history is a rear-view mirror, not a front windshield view

That’s not a presentation, it’s a document dumped into PowerPoint and it would have been better kept as a document. Watch the videos of PowerPoint used as a visual and interactive medium on http://www.aspirecommunications.com (not my site, unfortunately) and you’ll see it used at the other end of the ‘presentation spectrum’.

Hi Mac, that’s an interesting thought, but in my view the whole notion of ‘presentation’ has become seriously warped by people throwing up slides with text so small that no one in the audience can read them – and if they are reading them, what’s the point of having a presenter? May as well have a document.

It’s not the fault of PowerPoint as a program – well, not much anyway – when Microsoft chose to default slides after the title slide to bulleted lists they undermined the basis of PowerPoint as a user-friendly graphics program.

Anyway, a light has dawned! I thought ‘bummer’ in the article title referred to the style of the presentation, but maybe it was supposed to refer to the content of the message?