{"id":1782,"date":"2007-09-19T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T00:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2007-09-19T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T00:12:13","slug":"slideshare-sharing-slide-shows-like-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"SlideShare: Sharing slide shows like PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">SlideShare<\/a> is a beta social network site for sharing slide shows. You can have shows with audio attached, or just plain one that you click through.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure why slide shows should be shared, especially if they don&#8217;t have an audio track. This strikes me as a corruption. Slides were meant to enhance (not replace) talks. Now we have the slides without the talks they support. Tufte described the problems with shoehorning ideas into slides in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/powerpoint\">The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint<\/a>. If slides are a crutch, SlideShare is a pilgrimage spot where you can see the crutches left by others.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are uses for SlideShare. I guess you can put you slides up there so you can access them for a presentation. And trading decks of slides has become a way of proving you know something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SlideShare is a beta social network site for sharing slide shows. You can have shows with audio attached, or just plain one that you click through. I&#8217;m not really sure why slide shows should be shared, especially if they don&#8217;t have an audio track. This strikes me as a corruption. Slides were meant to enhance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SlideShare: Sharing slide shows like PowerPoint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}