From the 1940’s when Edward Bernays coined the term “public relations counselor” practitioners have used concepts that support both good causes and bad activities. Bernays demonstrated his skills in campaigns that got woman to smoke tobacco. The ability to misuse communication principles and mass psychology techiques led to efforts by public relations professionals to establish [...]
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Drupal 6 video options perplexing
Posted by David Compton on March 2nd, 2010
Video on a website never seems to be easy. There are so many formats, so many options and so many requirements for upload, encoding and displaying. It makes it apparent that the Drupal leadership vision on how video technology would be added to Drupal, so a kind of free-for-all resulted. In Drupal 6, the options and [...]
Disabling the “tinkering” gene
Posted by David Compton on January 22nd, 2010
A little humor here on tinkering
To blog or not to blog
Posted by David Compton on July 3rd, 2008
Seems the biggest problem with my job lately is blogging. Looking at Powering Publicity it has been months since I added a post. I did better last year when I was in the throws of prostate cancer and wondering if a blog really mattered. I did better when I was distributing a newsletter by email [...]
After death – Paradise
Posted by David Compton on December 10th, 2007
From death with prostate cancer in July – see last month’s post- to today, I must be in paradise. Paradise comes in the form of two weeks on the beach in Riviera Maya {near Cancun} Mexico. It is a celebration of a cure from cancer and 35 years of marriage. I have been here for [...]
Back to Work!
Posted by David Compton on November 16th, 2007
If you have wondered why my blog stopped abruptly in July, I have a simple reason… I died. Perhaps a little too melodramatic, but in July I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It took me weeks to get over the stunned feeling. I then got tons of information from the doctors, books and the Internet. [...]
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