Dave Weinberger just spent 90 minutes energizing a room full of Canadian civil servants, going on a tear about the possibilities and challenges inherent in the web.

I learned two things:

• if you really, really know your subject, Flickr is the only tool you need to make an effective Powerpoint deck. That and a variety of transitions between slides;
• old uncreative civil servants may just have to die off or retire before space is created for the innovative thinkers to really make change.

A fantastic presentation sponsored by the forward-thinking Canada School of Public Service, who webcast it to 70 other civil servants around the country.

Too bad about his twitter today, then:

“Just had to sign a waiver to use the wifi in a Canadian gov’t building. I pledge I am not plotting violence or looking at naughty pictures.”