We were lucky enough to enjoy the Lessig style at our user conference last year. But it has to be said that several other speakers -- and non-presenting participants -- made a similar spark with much less polish and visual whizbangery.
The more of these I see -- conferences, webinars, podcasts, and the wonders of Flash embeds -- the more it strikes me that every presentation I see violates someone's bullet-point list of presentation best practices. The common thread for all these wonderful presenters is commitment to the personal connection -- the entertainment, if you want to put it that way.
For an approach almost 180 degrees from Lessig's slideshow pyrotechnics that also works marvelously -- Elizabeth Gilbert on genius: