Internet Trolls: How to Recognize and Handle Them
Internet trolls exist to provoke and disrupt, not communicate. Here is what attracts them, how they operate, and why you cannot win by engaging.
Tag: Online Safety for Writers
A writer’s work, identity, and income all live online, which makes protecting them non-negotiable. These posts cover phone and home-computer security, social-media privacy, and what decades in enterprise IT taught about staying safe on the internet.
AEOCore Web Vitals: The Three Numbers That Measure How Your Website Feels
Google's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
Critical ThinkingInternet Trolls: The 16 Behaviors That Attract Them
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
CybersecurityThe Old Friend Who Suddenly Needed Money: A Scam I Spotted on Message One
A name I had not seen in thirteen years appeared in my Facebook messages, an old friend who within a few lines had no money for food. I knew where it was going before she got there, because being scammed…
LinkedInLinkedIn Account Restricted: What to Do and How to Prevent It
That your LinkedIn account has been restricted notice is a gut punch, because for most professionals the platform is where expertise lives and prospects gather. When it goes dark, so does all of that. Drawing on decades in computer operations,…
Online Safety for WritersSocial Media Privacy: What You’re Actually Giving Away
Every like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
BackupsHome Computer Security: A Complete Guide from 33 Years in Enterprise IT
Coffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
BiasYouTube and Influencer Echo Chambers – When Personality Becomes Doctrine
Open YouTube and there it is, the echo chamber at its most charismatic: someone in ring-lit 4K talking to you like a best friend, therapist, and prophet at once, handing you certainty instead of facts, plus merch and a Patreon…
AI WritingPhone Security for Writers: 8 Ways to Protect Your Work
Your phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
CISOCybersecurity Ghostwriting Services
Cybersecurity experts know their field cold; most just cannot turn that knowledge into writing that builds authority or draws clients. The expertise is there, the communication is not, and that is the gap. Drawing on 20+ years in security operations…
BackupsRobots.txt: The Most Dangerous File on Your Website and How to Configure It Without Destroying Your Search Rankings
One wrong line in robots.txt and I told every search engine on Earth to ignore my entire site, which promptly vanished from Google. I caught it fast; unmonitored, it could have stayed gone for weeks. It is the most powerful,…
BackupsWebsite Backup Guide: Protect Your Site From Total Disaster
Four words hit like a sledgehammer: this site can't be reached. My hosting company had vanished overnight and taken two years of content and custom work with it. A real backup strategy is not optional; it is the only thing…