"PowerPointlessness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, David Clive Nettelbeck, Computers, Thinking and Learning: Inspiring Students with Technology, page 52",
          "text": "We do not have to subject ourselves or our students to 'death by PowerPoint' or 'PowerPointlessness' as Jamie McKenzie calls it",
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          "text": "Powerful PowerPoint: Tips for Ending PowerPointlessness ...",
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          "text": "PowerPointlessness in higher education is an educational sin. I am rethinking."
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          "text": "Avoid 'PowerPointlessness!' A presentation should always be about your audience, not about you.",
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