{"id":679,"date":"2016-04-14T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/?p=679"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T19:11:16","slug":"an-experiment-slide-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/posts\/679","title":{"rendered":"An Experiment: Slide Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several years, a lot of my ideas about the future of computing have emerged as I prepared talks and presentations for various venues. For such talks, I usually try to illustrate each key idea with an evocative slide. I&#8217;ve been reviewing some of these presentations for material that I should blog about.  But one thing I noticed is that some of these slides really capture the essence of an idea. They&#8217;re worth sharing  and shouldn&#8217;t be buried deep within a presentation deck where few people are likely to find them.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to experiment with a series of short blog posts, each consisting of an image of one of my slides and at most a paragraph or two of supplementary text. But the slide is the essence of the post.  One nice thing about this form is that the core message can be captured in a single tweet. A lot of reading time isn&#8217;t required. And if it isn&#8217;t obvious, &#8220;slide bite&#8221; is a play on &#8220;sound bite&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know (tweet me at @awbjs) what you think about these slide bites.  I&#8217;m still going to write longer form pieces but for some ideas I may start with a slide bite and then expand it into a longer prose piece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several years, a lot of my ideas about the future of computing have emerged as I prepared talks and presentations for various venues. For such talks, I usually try to illustrate each key idea with an evocative slide. I&#8217;ve been reviewing some of these presentations for material that I should blog about. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirfs-brock.com\/allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}