Aaron's Twitter Viewer. Révélation : c’est Aaron Swartz qui libérait les livres de Google Books sur Internet Archive ! Le 24 janvier dernier, dans la magnifique église à San Francisco qui tient lieu de siège à Internet Archive, une cérémonie a eu lieu à la mémoire de l’activiste Aaron Swartz, dont le suicide il y a quelque semaines a provoqué un véritable électrochoc.
A cette occasion, Brewster Kahle, le fondateur d’Internet Archive, a prononcé un discours au cours duquel il a fait une révélation importante à propos d’Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz memorial at Internet Archive in San Francisco. Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz's Experiment with Images. When Taryn Simon, a photographer and artist, collaborated with the computer programmer Aaron Swartz last April, she noticed that the way he logged into his online accounts seemed exceptionally complex.
“The length of time it took to enter his password conveyed a certain pressure that was upon him,” Simon told me. And indeed, he was facing criminal charges at the time, following his arrest in 2011 for illegally accessing Jstor, a private scholarly database. Image Atlas.