ursula le guin, a rant on technology:
i
i want
i want to
i want to learn
i want to learn all of the things
there's so much to learn
yet, we learn so little
why is that the case of the world?
why is that?
why is?
why?
technology is here, right?
right now.
so why don't we use it?
maybe for our benefit before it could be against us.
laurel schwultz, my website is a shifting house...
a website is a website.
a website is a shelf.
a website is a puddle.
a website is a cloud.
a website is a plant.
a website is a home.
a website is a website is a website.
but, a website is a living room.
a website is a library.
a website is a history.
a website is a textbook.
a website is a system.
a website is a website is a website.
j.r. carpenter, a handmade web
handmade web tends to refer to web made by the hand. you know, something made at the hand of a person, and not a computer.
but, there is more depth to what handmade web actually is, than what meets the eye. here we are, in a world where we could go find the source code for any website out there.
i don’t think we realize how beneficial that actually is. who can say that they can learn coding this way.
coding is learning. handmade web is learning. learning by hand what goes into these websites. the effort. the specificity.
that will teach us more than anything that we could learn from the internet. it’s how you learn. it’s how you remember. the hand remembers so much.
what stood out in this article to me wasn't actually about the specific content, but more so the structure.
every once in a while we got an interruption in the writing. where we got this personal element of the author. it is reminiscent of how computers and digital media is
usually, yes, they are made at the hands of a person, but when the personable elements are thrown in there, it is a nice reminder of the hand that goes into the work.
for example, our hand coding in this class. there is a hand behind every website, every decision, every structure. and sometimes we thrown little elements in there that add our "touch".
callum copley, a friend is writing
professional is meeting social.
you are “expected” to respond outside of work.
is there really time off?
linkedin is supposed to be for professional networking, but is becoming more and more like facebook/instagram.
it’s the facebook of professionalism. and i would know… i have been really locked in to linkedin lately.
one other thing i find myself tied to is my gmail and my google calendar. i religiously check them. i religiously update them. i religiously clean them. i would not function without them.
but also why am i checking my email at…
5:50 am, or maybe, 11 pm, or maybe even 2 am if i wake up in the middle of the night.
i see that gmail notification and i must know what it is. right away. no stopping me now.
notifications take your focus. they enthrall you. i get one and i have to see what it is.
in just the four days this week, my phone says i get a daily average of 101 pickups a day and 215 notifications a day. half from messages. a fourth from gmail.
have these become my biggest distractions?
since when should something i need to survive at school be the reason i am becoming distracted? how does this make sense?
hell, my third most used app is linkedIn. with gmail and google calendar not far behind.
is there any personal time anymore? how do i relax? how do i separate work and play? is there a separation?
becca abbe, the internet’s back-to-the-land movement
everything has a reference. everything has a history. nothing was made from nothing.
the internet itself was inspired by something. everything on the internet has a history.
nothing is really "original" anymore.
what makes a room?
is a room different for everyone?
do we get to build this room around us?
how do we answer these?
it is safe to say that everyone curates the world around them.
for example, you choose what foods you eat.
what music you listen to.
who you are friends with.
what technology you have.
what you purchase.
everything in our lives is so carefully curated.
but all of this is individualistic.
your life could be very different than my life.
but, could it be safe to assume we have built this "room" up around us that we feel safe in?