Why Aaron Swartz's Ideas Matter
Will Knight,
MIT Technology Review,
Jan 14, 2013
I don't want to write a long post about Aaron Swartz, because that's been done already by a bunch of people who actually knew him, but his career and mine intersected one or twice and I always recognized him as a brilliant and generous contributor to our field. His suicide is a tragedy and a loss and touches close to home to many of us. Here's the coverage, for the record:
- Why Aaron Swartz's Ideas Matter - MIT technology Review
- MIT is Target of Hacker Group After Suicide of Internet Activist - Chronicle of Higher Education
- Aaron Swartz, Who Helped Free Information, Is Dead - Tidbits
- Remembering Aaron Swartz (and Infogami) - Language Log
- Tragedy when loss of data leads to loss of life - ITBusiness.ca
- RIP Aaron Swartz - Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
- Aaron Swartz's Politics - Naked Capitalism
- A Data Crusader, a Defendant and Now, a Cause - Noan Cohen, New York Times
- Aaron Swartz's "Crime" and the Business of Breaking the Law - James Allworth, HBR Blogs
- Aaron Swartz Plea Deal Reportedly Rejected Days Before His Death, Mashable
- Internet prodigy, activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide, CNN
- Aaron Swartz investigation ordered by MIT, BBC
- Reacting to Aaron Swartz's Suicide - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
- Between Micropolitics and Martyrdom - Mike Caulfield
- A tribute to Aaron Swartz - BigThink
- Reddit co-founder commits suicide - MarketWatch
- Technology's Greatest Minds Say Goodbye to Aaron Swartz - Mashable
- Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder. - David Wrinberger
- Online Grieving - Dave Winer
- A Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Lets Make #pdftribute Trend - Brian Kelly
- Aaron Swartz was on 'guerrilla crusade' for freedom - BBC Audio
- The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime" - Unhandled
- Aaron Swartz, Hero of the Open World, Dies - Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
- Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz - dana boyd
- Rest in peace, Aaron Swartz - David Weinberger
- Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist, Peter Eckersley, EFF
- Prosecutor as Bully - Lawrence Lessig
- My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved - Quinn Norton
- Aaron Swartz RIP - Links - Seb Schmoller
- Aaron Swartz - Audrey Watters
- Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz (part of a Remember Aaron Swartz web site, from which you can donate to GiveWell).
And... that's it. Nothing but silence to follow, in what should have been ongoing coverage of an extraordinary life.
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