Rethinking PowerPoint is a film which, through interviews with experts in design and cognative science, explores how to best construct an effective message and present it with visual media (PowerPoint, Keynote etc). The DVD may be pre-ordered here.
2/6/10 Rethinking PowerPoint premiered at the State Theatre at Penn State University. Thanks to all who attended.
1/31/10 Ron conducted interviews for the film last week with Stephen Kosslyn of Harvard, Peter Norvig of Google, and Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, who designed Al Gore's slides in An Inconvenient Truth.
Dan Roam, author of the acclaimed book The Back Of The Napkin, discusses visual thinking in a segment from Rethinking PowerPoint
Ron is in production on several films. One is Rebooting Healthcare, about technological solutions which can "re-form" the U.S. healthcare system, such as EMR data mining, telemedicine, and distributed medicine.
Ron's documentary on Goldman Sachs has broadened its scope to include AIG, FNMA, the ratings agencies, and the socialism of financial risk. The film has been renamed Killing Capitalism. He interviewed Noam Chomsky for the film September 15th.
Ron was made fun of on the Daily Show by Jon Stewart and Lewis Black. Watch here.
"Future Money: Virtual Currencies & Payments Systems" is being researched.
New column on the Huffington Post about the Droid.
* "Towards an Evidence-Based Presentation Authoring Tool" Goan, Dearing, Prestwick 2009
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Ron on NPR. Click here for MP3
