Category: socialnetworking
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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…
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Archive WordPress with HTTrack
I’ve been running WordPress websites since 2005, and creating webpages since 1995. Over that time I’ve accumulated a lot of sites including different blogs, professional development sites, projects, podcasts, and communities I’ve been part of. Many of them aren’t active any longer, but some sites still have content I want to preserve. The problem is…
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Spot the Bot: Notes and Takeaways
This week I virtually attended an excellent “Lunch & Learn webinar” hosted by the Center for North Carolina Politics and Public Service at Catawba College, titled “Spot the Bot: How to spot fake accounts and sort fact from fiction in social media.” The presenter was Torry Crass, former Chief Information Security Officer for the state…
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Digital Defense Against the Dark Arts
My spouse and I are big Lord of the Rings as well as Harry Potter fans. We love the books and we love the movies. Over Christmas break I started re-reading the Harry Potter book series… This evening we finished watching (AGAIN) the sixth film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.”…
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Nature, Screens and Healing
My New Year’s Day morning meditation podcast supplement today was: “Best Of: How Spending Time In Nature Helps Our Health” by #NPR1A. This podcast episode from NPR’s Studio 1A features an interview with Marc Berman, the author of “Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being.” In the…
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Fact Check Substack with a Superprompt
CLAIM: On 20 November 2025, 30,000 students in Charlotte, North Carolina, staged a walkout from school to protest Trump’s ICE immigration raids in the city. FACT CHECK RESULT: The past couple weeks here in Charlotte, North Carolina, have been both surreal and crazy. For insights into why, I recommend you watch the video from last…
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Inbox Alchemy via Vibe Coding
Back in September I wrote about my “DIY Federated Reader” experiment: a Gmail-to-Mastodon bot that turns my newsletter inbox into a public, federated news stream I’m able to read as a “feed” in Flipboard. This project is now featured on the “Trusted Voices” page of ResistAndHeal.com, a website and project I started in December 2024.…
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AI Bots and AI Personas
We have not only entered “The Age of AI,” we have entered the Age of “AI Bots” and “AI Personas.” There is not (yet) an English WikiPedia article for “AI persona,” but this is the definition Gemini AI provided to me this evening: An AI persona is a carefully crafted digital profile with a specific…
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DIY Federated Reader
We live in a fractured and polluted information environment. The sheer volume of content, combined with algorithms designed for engagement over enlightenment, can be overwhelming. Yet, within this chaos, there are countless people and organizations sharing fantastic, potentially transformative ideas. The challenge is finding them. This is where we can step in for each other,…
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Zoom AI Meeting Summary
Today I facilitated another monthly Zoom webinar for the MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab, and I was both pleased and amazed to receive an AI-powered “Meeting Summary” (directly from Zoom) following the recorded videoconference. I’m including an edited version of it below, and adding hyperlinks to referenced resources. Here’s the archived recording (47…