STORYSPACE & HYPERTEXT: Changes
In trying to focus a visual paper (Keynote) on the single topic of changes that both writer and writing undergo in the transition to hypertext form, I’ve gotten down to fifty pages of posts from this weblog that made me smile or appeared relevant. From those fifty pages I’ve copied into ten pages certain phrases and sometimes whole posts to melt down into clarification when the fat rises to the top and can be skimmed off.
From there, I’ve copied certain of the best (either because they make good points or because I can’t get over my own eloquence sometimes) and have granted them a slide in the show. Mostly these are taken in time sequence, but I’m trying to keep them in the flow of certain issues I want to cover in the presentation.
Likely will finish up the rough first draft of the Keynote slide show today or tomorrow, putting everything in place and then figuring what can be removed or compressed. I think that the idea of a slideshow, for me, is an accompaniment to a talk, and whether I read off the slide and add a bit to it, or use it just as an outline, it needs to be organized and timed.
Also, it needs to be self-contained. If I faint dead away then someone will be able to click through it and frankly, the audience would probably prefer it that way.
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