Journal: News & Comment

What speech is good for

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Here's something for me to keep in mind for my presentation next month:

Speech is a bad medium for communicating information [but] a good medium for dialog. [...] Every conference I can think of gets these two things backwards. They use valuable face-to-face time for worthless presentations by people who are not particularly entertaining and even if they were are saying things you already know, and then try and stifle discussion (one question per person, sir!) and shunt it off towards lunch or something (we don't have time for questions now). Hello? What did all these people come out here for? I can watch infomercials at home just fine, thanks.

Bill gave me the pointer.

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