Aaron swartz | friends

Copyrighteous. I moved to Boston in 2005 at the same time that Aaron Swartz did and we were introduced by a mutual friend.

Aaron was one of my first friends in Boston and we became close. When Aaron moved to San Francisco, I moved into his apartment in Somerville where he kept a room for a year or so. Mika and I still live there. His old posters remain on our walls and his old books remain on our shelves. Aaron’s brothers Ben and Noah both lived with us and remain close friends.

I have spent hours (days?) 1. The reaction to Aaron’s death has been overwhelming and inspirational. There are many attempts to understand why Aaron died and many attempts to prevent it from happening to others in the future. I don’t know the answer, but I do know this: Aaron was facing the real risk of losing half his life to prison. 2. Remember Aaron Swartz. The Aaron Swartz Collection : Free Texts. This is a new thing for the Internet Archive: a memorial archive collection.

Please upload to this collection (with an open source browser) with any digital materials you think appropriate in a memorial collection: emails with him, code archives, photos. They may not be presented well on this site yet, but they will be preserved and accessible, and we will get better at personal digital archives.

Aaron worked with the Archive to build OpenLibrary.org, RECAP, and Public domain book collections. A custom web collection via archive-it has been created. Thank you for everything, Aaron. From Wikipedia:Aaron H. He also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism. On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR, which became the subject of a federal investigation. All items (most recently added first) Official Statement from the Family and Partner of.

Lessig Blog, v2. Lessig Blog, v2. Remembering Aaron Swartz. Share Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wikipedia Meetup in 2009.

By Sage Ross (Flickr: Boston Wiki Meetup), via Wikimedia Commons. I had other plans for how to spend my Saturday. I had other plans for my next blog post here at The Nation. Then I learned my friend Aaron Swartz had committed suicide, facing a baseless, bullying federal indictment that might have sent him to jail for decades, and fate demanded this be a day to remember. I remember him contacting me out of the blue—was it in 2005? My friend Jon Stokes reminds me of the time Jon invited me and my then-wife out to dinner, and Aaron tagged along—he was an inveterate tagger-along, a modern-day Luftmensch—and explained to us this thing he helped make called Reddit, which I did not understand at all.

I remember when we all went to a talk by Barbara Ehrenreich at the Newberry Library in Chicago—the Internet tells me it was 2006—and he spent any down time in the activity around him doing this weird thing on his cell phone, fingers flying. RIP, Aaron Swartz. Click for ongoing posts about Aaron, his memorial service, his death, and the malicious prosecution brought by the DoJ against him To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to "RIP, Aaron Swartz.

" Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz. The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster.

I woke up yesterday to find that a friend of mine – Aaron Swartz – had taken his life. My Twitter feed went into mourning – shock, sadness, anger, revenge. I spent the day talking with friends who were all in various states of disarray. I watched as many of them poured out their hearts on their blogs, a practice we’ve all been doing for over a decade.

And yet, I couldn’t find the words to express what I’ve been feeling. For better or worse, I’ve known a lot of people over the years who have committed suicide. There’s no doubt in my mind that depression was a factor. I’ve known Aaron for nine years and I both adored him to pieces and found him frustrating as hell. What made me so overwhelmingly angry yesterday was the same thing that has been boiling in my gut for the last two years. Reasonable people can disagree about tactics and where and when a particular approach pushes too far. Le blogue de tilly: [traduction] comment vivre avec la mort d'aaron swartz, hommage de danah boyd. “ He used his prodigious skills as a programmer and technologist not to enrich himself but to make the Internet and the world a fairer, better place. ” Avant de faire parler danah boyd lien en français (sans autorisation, à chaud, par émotion), quelques mots d’explication sur le sujet de ce billet.

Ce weekend, la nouvelle de la mort d’Aaron Swartz à 26 ans a secoué très fort la communauté des chercheurs américains dans le domaine des sciences de l’information. Les témoignages, les analyses, les souvenirs, dressent déjà du jeune disparu volontaire, un portrait hors du commun. L’enfant prodige grassouillet qui posait à 14 ans entre deux “vieilles” sommités des technologies de l’internet était devenu un beau garçon brun mondialement reconnu pour ses contributions au développement du web sémantique (3.0 et au-delà).

Mais il était aussi connu pour son activisme, ses “coups” portés en particulier au lobby international des éditeurs de revues scientifiques. ...