An argument against Takahashi style presentations

A Takahashi style presentation is where each slide contains one or two big words, and nothing more, and the speaker talks over them.

However, I personally prefer the telegram style for several reasons:

• If your attention drifts off while someone is talking, for instance while you think about a point that is being made, you can catch up.
• You can point someone who wasn't there to the slides and if the slides are good enough they can get the gist of the talk.
• If someone is a bad speaker you can still get something out of the talk.
• If you are the speaker and you are speaking to an audience not all of whom are native speakers of your language, the slides act as subtitles, and they will be able to follow the talk more easily (this works both ways of course).

And, I have now found another reason: a reporter can quote them as if they had interviewed you. The magazine Computer Weekly has an article "Web 2.0: What does it constitute?", where it reads as if they had interviewed me. In fact all they have done is take lines from my recent talk on Web 3.0 and quoted the words as if I had said them to them.

They treat Tim Bray similarly.