Audrey Watters

Get tattooed. (Right arm sleeve. Badgers, lions, clan MacLean, or something. Something fierce.) Turn 40 in England. Use more multimedia in my writing (or whatever it is kids these days call it. Create better graphics, use audio and video, etc). Get a "Techmeme" headline for Hack Education. Break more news...

You've got less than 24hours to take advantage of the second Humble Bundle, so you should hop to it. I finally had a chance to sit down yesterday (as the tech news grinds to a holiday halt) and play the bundle's 5 games. So let me attest: as with the...

I loved the first Humble Indie Bundle -- loved the concept of pay-what-you-want video games, loved the open-sourcing of the games, loved the money that went to charity, and simply loved the games themselves. So I was thrilled when I heard from Jeffrey Rosen and John Graham that they were...

These aren't all new websites or tech tools that launched this year. But they're some of my favorite things I stumbled across online in 2010. In no particular order... 1. WikiLeaks WikiLeaks -- the organization; its implications for journalism and free speech; the light it has shed on governments, corporations,...

This week has been strangely surreal. I was one of the first last Friday to write about PayPal's quiet little blog post announcing it was freezing WikiLeaks' account. Soon after, a link to the story was tweeted by none other than WikiLeaks itself, then linked to on the WikiLeaks website...

"The first serious infowar is now engaged," EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow tweeted on Friday. "The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops." Cablegate and Tech Companies And here we are. In the week since the whistleblower site released its latest round of documents to major global newspapers,...

I have added an A record to my domain, pointing http://wikileaks.audreywatters.com to Wikileaks' current IP address. I've done this to show my support for Wikileaks and my opposition to censorship of the Web. This subdomain on my site points to 213.251.145.96, and means that even if Wikileaks loses a domain...

Technology may be challenging everything we know about information, safety, and privacy. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's not necessarily a good thing. We must remember, technology is never unhinged from the society from which it emerges. The TSA has implemented full-body scanners at airport security. The new devices...

 I feel quite blessed, and while it's cliche and a little hollow to only offer thanks because it's a holiday here in the US, I have nevertheless written a short list of (geeky) things I'm thankful for today: 1. I'm thankful for my work as a technology writer. I get...

I was only home from New York for 3 days before turning around and heading out of town again. This time the destination was Palo Alto on Wednesday for a press conference at Facebook Headquarters. Then to San Francisco for the rest of the week, as Kin and I both...