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Ack, that still doesn't prevent slides from going online. Just include your speaker notes. Problem solved. More work of course, but problem solved. Here's a fantastic example.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2012/GDC2012_Ruski...

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I love posting speaker notes too. I did it for this one a bit ago; I think the notes helped people who were reading it. http://brenocon.com/IE%20lecture.pdf

Speaker notes are definitely one option (as is the video mentioned in other comments) but I feel like they're a lazy/weak way of telling the story, compared to actually writing a blog post about the same topic.

I strongly disagree. Presentations are often almost an hour long and may contain over 100 slides + images. That format does not translate particularly well to a blog post.

Did you look at the link I posted? It's a far more enjoyable, engrossing, and informative format than the equivalent multi-post blog series.

If your slides are like this, sure, it'd need to be a multi-post series or an ebook (though, ebook might not be a bad option) or something like how Seth Godin presented his iconic "Really Bad Powerpoint": http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf

..edit: I like Markdown too much.

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