Rather than giving points to the tools that have the most of whatever garbage they may offer, I’ll focus more on what is important and not count the fluff or garbage.  There was a nice feature where you can move bars to the left or right without editing the data table.  It was with great joy that last month, I uninstalled Office 2004.  The software, PowerPoint 2004 included, were getting on my nerves and there was nothing that suite could do to repair the broken relationship we had. 

His concept of "the economy of attention" is premised on the idea that all of the elements that comprise a situation — its business as well as its custard — are in the process of being reorganized by the emerging media and an underlying economy that privileges "fluff" over "stuff." In this "new economy," Lanham argues, the most valuable commodity is not the stuff we think we’re trading, but is instead the fluff that surrounds it — that organization, and architecture, and those rhetorical effects that direct our attention and help us make sense of the stuff. home submissions about dhq dhq people contact Spring 2009: v3 n2 Current Issue Previous Issues Winter 2009: v3 n1 Summer 2008: v2 n1 Summer 2007: v1 n2 Spring 2007: v1 n1 Indexes Title Author ISSN 1938-4122 Announcements Call for Reviewers Call for Submissions DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly Spring 2009 Volume 3 Number 2 v3:n2 >>  |  Print Article  |  Taporware Tools List Words Find Text Collocation Designing Choreographies for the "New

He says they're 'fluff.'" This comment always irritates me, but what else should I expect? Long ago, in a land far, far away, someone decided that a presentation could not be taken seriously unless it was accompanied by a PowerPoint chock full of text, bullet points, charts, data and citations. Others may call it "fluff," but images and other kinds of visual, auditory, verbal and physical stimulation will keep your audience focused on you and your message, not using your presentation I've heard this several times from clients who've come to me for help with their slide shows: "My boss/conference organizer/client wants me to take all the images out of the PowerPoint.