slides – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:00:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-avatar-32x32.jpeg slides – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[SlideShare is selling your old slides - here's how to stop it]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/slideshare-is-selling-your-old-slides-heres-how-to-stop-it/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/slideshare-is-selling-your-old-slides-heres-how-to-stop-it/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:34:37 +0000 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=40606 Remember SlideShare? It's where we used to upload PowerPoints back in the day. It was easier than emailing them around. I think. No one really remembers. I think they got bought by LinkedIn? Anyway, they're now owned by Scribd.

If someone visits one of your old slideshows and wants to download it, Scribd will charge them US$10 per month for membership! What a rip off! Screenshot saying "Want to download this document? Download with a free trial."

Of course, Scribd don't actually say how much you'll be charged after your "free trial". Because, I assume, they're a disreputable company who don't want to empower their customers into making an informed choice. But, with a bit of searching, you can find the current subscription rates.

Anyway, Scribd will pay you exactly $0.00 whenever one of their paying customers downloads your creative efforts. What a rip off!

But! If you log in (you do remember your password from a decade ago, right?) and go to settings, you'll find this handy option:

Screenshot of a settings screen. A checkbox label says "Allow users to download your slideshows without a subscription"

Check the box and hit save. Now people don't need to be paying members of SlideShare to download your thought-leader-high-impact-blue-chip-galaxy-brain slides.

]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/slideshare-is-selling-your-old-slides-heres-how-to-stop-it/feed/ 2 <![CDATA[QRpedia Presentation at Derby Museum]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/04/qrpedia-presentation-at-derby-museum/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/04/qrpedia-presentation-at-derby-museum/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:24:56 +0000 http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=3948 It's always an odd experience to watch yourself speak. Everyone - I think - finds the sound of their own voice really odd. I'm no exception!

This is the video from the Derby Museum Backstage Pass where we gave the first public demonstration of QRpedia.

The Video

Video shot by Nick Moyes.

The Slides

All slides are a work in progress. This is a close approximation of what was presented on the day.

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