Keke's Place

Laurel Schwulst, My Website is a Shifting House ... — (pdf) I feel like the author reimagines websites as flexible, living spaces rather than static portfolios or resumes. She uses metaphors to show how websites can grow, change, and reflect personal ideas over time. It emphasizes that personal sites make individuals more visible on the web and allow them to actively shape online spaces instead of relying on algorithm-driven platform, this made me think about geocity sites.

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Rant on Technology — (pdf) To me, the author is challenging how society defines and talks about technology. She offers a new perspective by reminding us that technology isn’t just futuristic inventions but everyday tools like the wheel or light that we often overlook. This connects to visibility and invisibility because older technologies become so normalized that we stop recognizing them as technology at all. Le Guin’s view feels more like a critique of society than of technology itself, suggesting that technology reflects human values and acts as a way for us to cope with daily life.

J.R. Carpenter, A Handmade Web — (pdf) To me, Carpenter highlights the value of hand coded, personal websites in a web dominated by corporate platforms and templates. By showing how small, experimental sites and individual creators are often overlooked, even though they represent a more authentic and human side of the internet. Carpenter encourages reclaiming agency on the web by treating it as a space for creativity, care, and resistance rather than efficiency or profit.

Callum Copley - A Friend is Writing My initial impression of this writing was confusion. With all the tabs popping up and having the friends notifications on the side were overwhelming. I couldn’t focus on reading the tab at hand, and I had to wait for all the notifications to be done. This also just reconfirmed why I keep group notifications off. As for the writing, I enjoyed it, with multiple topics, a new topic for each tab, which was interesting. For me, the mute conversation resonated with me the most, with the topic being how multitasking kills your brain, but when I think about my whole life as one being multi tasking game. This is a quote that really grasped my attention: “multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol” as well as “the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.”