Powerpoint

Top five Powerpoint tips.

1. Do NOT read off Powerpoint slides.

2. Do not put to much writing on any slide.

3. You should be able to present even if your Powerpoint fails.

4. Do not use animation to the point that it distracts the audience.  

5. Be simple yet elegant. 

I want to shoot people that read off their slides. I think that a great presenter does not even need a Powerpoint, think of a presidential speech with a Powerpoint, it would be corny. I think the best Powerpoint presentations are only pictures and graphs.  The speakers should be able to do the rest. 

David Gangwish

Viable Internet Sources

Chris Nolan made an interesting and accurate presentation about finding sources online, and judging thier credibility. While the internet will never be as safe as the local library, he showed that their are things users can do to protect themselves. The most interesting thing he showed was how to add simple commands into Google to produce more specific and possible better results. It is also interesting that the general population has moved from the Yahoo Search engine to Google. Google in general is in my personal opinion the smartest and best technology company around. They sell information, and most of that they don't even own. The only thing that they need to do thier work is a lot of good programers, and some computer equipment, they have very low costs for what they are making.

David Gangwish

Intellectual Property Laws

Intellectual Propery Laws are a very current and interesting subject. While the laws of this subject are still being changed and perfected internationally, the basic idea stays the same. In "They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000" by Eirik Solheim, an electronics company used an image of his son in thier advertisement. This was a fairly straightforward case of stealing, as the company was using it in an advertisement. They also did not site the sorce of the picture. This is not a US case and it was solved out of court, the company paying Solheim $4000. While most cases are never paid for or even brought up, this was a special occation where the owner of the photo not only noticed his picture was being used, but also knew a lot about internation copyright and intellectual property laws. He had the money and connections to cause the company a problem, so they paid him off.
In my personal opinion he really didn't prove anything. He got a little money from his image, but besides that didn't really prove anything. If he had wanted to make a statement about intellectual property laws he should have brought the case to trial instead of just being bought out and writing a badly title artical that was only published online.

David Gangwish