I'm Old And Cranky And You Should Listen To Me About Stuff

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 12 Comments

Massively already has pictures from my panel discussion at Ion up, which I suspect means that they’ll be posting notes of how badly my presenting skills have atrophied to shortly (Edit: whoomp there it is) (I tried to speak extemporaneously instead of reading-in-a-monotone-from-a-script and about 7 minutes in started running into lots of “Uhh”). But here’s the slide that really explained my entire talk (courtesy of Massively):

I’ll update this when more reviews and whatnot trickle in from teh intarwebs.

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  • Mercury

    Egads. The future is so much more fluid than you can possibly understand… ;)

    But, really, I feel you on the speaking thing. When you have a choice between the sum of all evil (aka Power Point) and risking the “uhhh…” action, it’s not an easy call.

  • Raz

    *sits in audience, lights lighter*

  • http://mythicalblog.com Jeff Freeman

    Great oics. It’s almost like being there.

    Are there rules prohibiting video recording of these things, or are we just way behind those guys at all the skateboarding accident scenes?

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    My best public speaking days involve a massive hangover… You should try it or not.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    Ooo, look at Mr. Sexy up on stage, bein all sexeh, mmmm.

    Grats on being Spiderman!

  • Drakks

    They had Brad Pitt speaking this year?

  • Michelle

    So … this wasn’t as great as your GDC rant at Austin a year or 2 ago (or maybe it was 3, I have a bad case of oldzheimers lately)? If it was half as good, I imagine it was still better than a lot of what was presented.

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  • Korak

    Lum we gotta get you on a treadmill twice a week or something. I don’t want my favoirte internet personality to die from being overweight 8(

  • Phaltran

    http://www.toastmasters.org/ (click the Find button on the left hand menu).

    Ask around. I’d wager some of your co-workers or friends know about a club in your area. It can help you *not* read from a script, but still speak in an organized fashion. If you do speak extemporaneously, it can get rid of those time-wasting and distracting “uh’s.” It can even help you improve your PowerPoint skills.

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