23 Years, and Still Blogging

I started this blog in 2003, and moved to self-hosted WordPress in 2005.. Nearly six thousand posts later, 5,965 to be exact, I’m making a real change: speedofcreativity.org is becoming an archive rather than an active site. Every post that’s ever lived here stays exactly where it is, nothing disappears, but I won’t be adding new ones to this particular address going forward.

This isn’t an ending so much as a redirection of energy. Two decades of posts, conference notes, podcast episodes, and half-finished thoughts turned out to be a genuinely large, complex thing to keep running safely, and I’d rather spend my time creating than maintaining digital infrastructure, defending from bots and cyber-bad actors.

Funny thing is, this isn’t even my first time writing about a move like this. Back in 2018, I wrote about migrating dozens of sites to a new host, by hand, alone, at midnight, hitting error after error. Then just this past June, I wrote again about archiving WordPress sites with HTTrack, the very same tool doing the heavy lifting tonight. What’s different this time is who I did it with: an AI coding and terminal command partner, working through corrupted databases, permission mysteries, and a decade of accumulated web history together, in real time. (Claude AI!) If that sounds like something you’d want to read more about, stay tuned, there may be more written about this particular journey soon – on “Media Literacy with Wes” – my Substack descendant and follow-on to this blog… at least, for now.

I’ll also say plainly, I think we’re in the early stages of what might fairly be called an era of AI cyberwar, and this week’s work only sharpened that feeling. If you want a genuinely sobering, well-informed look at what that means, I’d point you to “Shawn Ryan’s interview with Kevin Mandia, the man who exposed China’s military hackers.” (August 2026)

One direct result of this perception about AI cyberwar is the realization I need to dramatically REDUCE the “attack surface” I present to potential bad actors, especially through dynamic websites like WordPress which run on PHP, MySQL, etc.

Here’s where I’m primarily sharing now, and where you can keep finding me:

1. My educational technology and media literacy journey continues under the name Media Literacy with Wes, on Substack:
   wfryer.substack.com
2. My almost-weekly podcast, co-hosted with Jason Neiffer, on The EdTech Situation Room:
   edtechsr.substack.com
3. Christian faith and digital witness writing, and my new seminary journey… at Pocket Share Jesus:
   pocketshare.wesfryer.com (different domain, same content… and old permalinks auto-forward!)
4. All my civic and cultural advocacy links, including “Heal Our Culture,” gathered in one place:
   wesfryer.com/advocacy
5. Every social channel I’m active on:
   wesfryer.com/after
6. My primary YouTube channel:
   youtube.com/wfryer
7. My podcasts and current podcast subscriptions, kept current via PodCommons:
   podcasts.wesfryer.com
8. My ongoing AI learning journey, documented as I go:
   ai.wesfryer.com
9. Books I’ve authored and will author in the future, on:
   books.wesfryer.com
10. My primary website and homepage, which I’ll be creatively transforming in the weeks ahead:
    wesfryer.com

Thank you for over two decades of reading, commenting, and sharing. It’s been a genuine privilege, and our journey together continues!