Audrey Watters

Just a short update on some big changes: I’m incredibly proud of my boyfriend Kin Lane, who’s been named a Presidential Innovation Fellow. The year-long appointment – he’ll be working for the VA – will involve our moving to Washington DC in August. It’s all been a bit of a...

I cancelled my Flickr Pro account yesterday, and following a nudge from David Wiley, moved my digital photographs to Trovebox, an open source photo management tool. I’ve been a member of Flickr since June 2005. I started the account to host and display photos of Anthony’s artwork which I’d often...

I write for a living. I’ve freelanced here and there, but I’ve made the decision in recent years to focus my efforts on developing my own websites, particularly Hack Education, rather than write for someone else elsewhere. As such I’ve modeled much of what I do here on successful “indie”...

I wept yesterday. I wept over the loss of a young man I never knew. I wept for his friends and his family. I wept for Quinn. For Larry. For Cory. I wept for the open Web — for the work done and left undone. I wept for all of...

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...