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I recently had the chance to take part in an all-day brain­storm at the top of 30 St Mary Axe (also know as the Gherkin).

Some­how, a cam­era fell into my bag on my way out of the house and, as I was there, it seemed rude not to take some shots.

You can see a selec­tion of the pho­tos here.

How many times have you sat down to a pre­sen­ta­tion only to be faced with War & Peace on each slide? Bul­let fol­low­ing bul­let only sep­a­rated by some sub-bullets and a graph in a font so small that it looks like braille?

Then there’s that moment just before the pre­sen­ter switches to full screen mode when you notice that this is slide one of 128. And you think to your­self: this is time I am never, ever going to get back.

Life­hacker points to a deck by Alexei Kapterev high­light­ing where so many pre­sen­ters go wrong:

[slideshare id=85551&doc=death-by-powerpoint4344&w=425]

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Take a look at this.

The stills don’t do it jus­tice, but it comes from the chrono­text site that “is a grow­ing col­lec­tion of soft­ware exper­i­ments explor­ing the rela­tion between text, space and time.”

Essen­tially it runs a selec­tion of text around a spi­ral that’s laid on top of a topo­graph­i­cal map. And it’s awfully pretty. down­load the Java app and see it in action.

Nice.

Source: NOTCOT