Please, No More Death by PowerPoint! By CC Holland. Updated on: September 15, 2009 / 7 ... With bullet points. And, preferably, with cutesy little graphics. Bonus points for animated slides.

A recent New Yorker magazine features a cartoon showing a job interview in hell: "I need someone well versed in the art of torture," the interviewer says. "Do you know PowerPoint?" The joke is ...

Implicated in 2 space shuttle disasters. Banned by a combat commander in Iraq. Making sense of our collected and stored information is hard enough. Does PowerPoint thinking make it harder?

Presentations don’t have to be Death by PowerPoint. Use the right tool for the job. Give a presentation when it makes sense to give a presentation.

These days, there are plenty of alternatives to PowerPoint - Keynote, Slides, Prezi, SlideRocket, Easel.ly, Emaze, Slidedog, to name but a few - many of which are freely available online.