Audrey Watters

Malcolm McLaren died today at age 64. His impact on music and subculture was substantial, as was his influence on my own personal artistic tastes and philosophies. When asked to list my favorite books, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century always appears. It was via...

As an email in my inbox this morning greeted me, Welcome to Day 3 of being a Freelance Writer!' So far I've written five blog posts (elsewhere, clearly, as this blog hasn't been updated since Sunday), sat in on a press conference call, got my first freelance paycheck (hellz yeah),...

Like most geeks, I turned in to Apple's announcement in January about the iPad with much interest and I confess, a good dose of fanboi excitement. I was in a departmental meeting (OMG! I am done with those!) when Steve Jobs took the stage, and when the device was unveiled,...

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, And human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... ~E.M. Forster, Howards End Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing...

Who do you "friend" in social networks? Are they people you know "IRL"? Are they people you know well? Are they your friends -- I mean "really" your friends -- or is the relationship better described with some other word -- co-worker, perhaps. Co-worker's husband. Colleague. Associate. Former teacher. Mother-in-law....

So as of 4pm Friday, Audrey Watters will officially be a free-agent, a word-slinger, a freelance writer for hire, and all that. Yay me. And yay for having http://audreywatters.com -- my own website -- where I can build brand Me. If you Google me, you find me here. I've registered...

I nodded along vigorously with much of her lecture as it resonated with my time playing MMORPGs. But I've yet to experience this in "social gaming." This isn't to say these games can't be designed to elicit the transformative power that McGonigal speaks to. But I wonder if the 80...

I can't decide if I am fascinated by "social gaming" or appalled by "social gaming" or irritated that once again I feel this division of players into categories that just don't quite work for how I game: hardcore versus casual, social gamer versus lonely loser. Maybe it's the term: "social...

I've long positioned myself at work as one of the resident experts on Facebook privacy. I am very committed to building strong skills for and awareness around digital citizenship, but truth be told being the resident expert on Facebook privacy has other benefits -- most notably justifying the amount of...

Cross-posted at The Border House for Donna Haraway I fear that anything I could write for Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging in celebration of women's achievements in science and technology, would have to include my own personal technology experience narrative. It would have to start in 1977...