Hoe wil je leven op het internet?
The internet is not one all-encompassing, mysterious, and untouchable thing.
The web is a flock of birds or a sea of punctuation marks, each tending or forgetting about their web garden or puddle home with a river of knowledge nearby.
The web is what we make it
The Creative Independent • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?


A website could also be a puddle. A puddle is a temporary collection of rainwater. They usually appear after rainstorms. Like a storm, creating a website can happen in a burst. Sometimes it’s nice to have a few bursts/storms of creating a website, since the zone can be so elusive. Some people even call rain “computer weather.”
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
“I want to challenge us all to have greater ambitions for the web. I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfill our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisions.”
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
The beautiful thing about the internet is that it's still a wild frontier. The physical frontiers of our world are largely mapped and tamed. But the digital frontier is endless, and it's always open to settlers seeking better ways forward. We are all free to venture forth, follow our curiosity and aliveness, direct our attention in new ways, and fi... See more