Delivery

I found Porter's article on delivery to really interesting.  Delivery isn't something I think about very often but its something that is constantly influencing us.

Think about your favorite Ted Talk (if you're into that sort of thing) or the one that stands out in your mind the most. For me its the one given by Sir Ken Robinson called Do Schools Kill Creativity? Robinson is a genius in delivery - his cadence of speech, the pauses, the humor, the way he engages the audience and builds the speech. Given by another person who didn't utilize these tactics, the talk would undoubtedly have been a bit on the boring side and not so memorable. This is simply a small example of the power of delivery. Lackluster delivery can make an interesting speech fall short of impacting an audience, and on the flip side, a not so excellent speech can be bolstered by sharp, creative or entertaining delivery.

The idea of delivery in a digital realm changes things.  Porters article mentions how, "delivery seemed less relevant, or irrelevant to written compositions than the other canons" (Porter, 1).
But in our day and age, where the mediums are so melded with gaming and the internet and digital media, it seems to me that delivery plays a large and vital role. Whereas the delivery was once only in the realm of the orator, its now in the hands of designers, filmmakers, digital artists and so on.