Update on SITE08 Keynote

by | Wednesday, April 02, 2008

A re-edited version of the SITE 2008 Keynote address (by Matt Koehler and me) has been uploaded to the website. You can find the new version here. This presentation depended quite heavily on the exact synching of slide transitions to the audio – and the previous version messed that up here and there. More embarrassing was the fact that we had a typo on the very first screen of the previous version. Oops!

Anyway, all that has been fixed. Here’s the link (once again).

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