Audrey Watters

I've already outlined on Hack Education the projects I want to tackle in the coming months -- that is, the work related to my writing and speaking about education technologies. And even though some of these do sound an awful lot like New Year's Resolutions (they're not!), I thought I'd quickly...

Like hundreds of thousands of folks, I signed up for Code Year in January, 2012. This was the year I was going to learn how to code. Except I didn’t. Well, not like that. Not via a weekly email that pointed me to Codecademy lessons on Javascript and whatnot. I’m...

This isn’t a list post. I hate them. I hate seeing them scroll by in my Twitter feed. I hate seeing folks retweet them. I hate writing them. I hate a blogging industry that encourages writers to produce them. Top 9,999,999 Apps For Staying Focused — NextTechBlog (@NextTechBlog) October 28,...

My former RWW colleague Jon Mitchell (@ablaze) revealed Friday that he’s the person behind the tech blog parody Twitter account @nexttechblog. “So what?” is a perfectly acceptable response here. If you’re not a tech blogger (or journalist or media-watcher of some sort) you probably don’t care about a Twitter account...

At some point in my life I'll write everything down that I haven't blogged already about Anthony's death and dying. I'll go through my blog archives and dig up the stories that my memory has (thankfully) diminished. But I wrote this yesterday, even though "the morning after" this year's election...

Isaiah enlisted in the Army today. I am incredibly proud of him. I have always told him that I would support him however I can. This is his choice. I support it. I am incredibly conflicted as I do so. ----- “It’s your fault,” my dad tells me,”that he has...

Dear Amanda Palmer, I’ve been trying to sort out my feelings all week about the kerfuffle over underground rockstar musician Amanda Palmer (AFP) and the wages she’s offering to pay musicians who join her on new tour (i.e., beer, hugs, high fives), a tour that was funded in no small...

Anthony Vanderford, March 9, 1971 - August 29, 2005 Seven years later, the story arc bends towards healing. I can't think of a time in my life where I've been happier -- except today, of course, when the waves of grief and of memory strike shore again. Image credits: Anthony...

On January 1, my partner Kin Lane and I incorporated as Tech Gypsies. We chose the name as we both live and work as technologists, writers, and consultants and live and work on the road. We chose to create a company because it was easier for us to handle our...