F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

If I get hit by a truck... ...please read this web page digital signature for this page There's an old joke among programmers about who will maintain the code when its author gets hit by a truck. This page is here so that if for some reason I'm no longer able to keep my web services running, people will know what to do. I designate Sean B. I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available from aaronsw.com. web.resource.org Sean (or someone he designates) should become the new curator/webmaster. Source Code Copyright for my GPLed source code should revert to the Free Software Foundation. Websites Please keep the websites operational where possible, with content written by me kept untouched where appropriate. Grave I'd like to rest someplace that won't kill me. For other stuff, email Sean. If something does happen to me, please update the footer of this page with a link. Oh, and BTW, I'll miss you all. [based on ESR's page]

Aaron Swartz Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS[3] and the Markdown publishing format,[4] the organization Creative Commons,[5] the website framework web.py[6] and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami.[i] He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".[7] Swartz's work also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.[8][9] He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Life and works[edit] W3C[edit] Markdown[edit]

Aaron Swartz: howtoget Talk, as prepared, for the Tathva 2007 computer conference at NIT Calicut. (Additional notes.) Translations: 日本語 The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to always title his talks "How to Get a Job Like Mine" and then proceed to talk about whatever he felt like. So how did I get a job like mine? But, on the other hand, when I started I was a very young kid stuck in a small town in the middle of the country. Step 1: Learn The first thing I did, which presumably all of you have already got covered, was to learn about computers, the Internet, and Internet culture. Step 2: Try The first site I built was called get.info. The second site I built was called my.info. Step 3: Gab It was summer and I was out of school and didn't have a job, so I had a lot of free time on my hands. First I asked the working group members if I could join. I was also a true believer on the subject of RDF, so I worked hard to get other people to adopt it. Step 4: Build And then I left it all and went to college for a year.

Aaron Swartz En hommage à Aaron Swartz Une vague d’émotion sans précédente s’est emparée du Web (que j’ai l’habitude de lire) après la récente tragique disparition d’Aaron Swartz à l’âge de 26 ans. Il faut dire qu’il en avait fait des choses en une pourtant si courte période ! Nous avons décidé de lui rendre hommage en traduisant collectivement l’un des articles de son blog où il évoque son parcours et ses nombreux projets. Cet article a été initialement écrit en 2007. Aaron avait alors à peine 20 ans… Comment dégoter un boulot comme le mien How to Get a Job Like Mine Aaron Swartz - 18 août 2008 - Blog personnel(Traduction : ga3lig, clementd, Amic, tth, bld, KoS, Havok Novak, a_r_n_a_u_d_b, jpcw + anonymous) L’écrivain américain Kurt Vonnegut avait l’habitude de toujours nommer ses interventions « Comment obtenir un travail comme le mien » pour parler ensuite de ce que bon lui semblait. Comment ai-je réussi à dégotter ce job ? Étape 1 : apprendre Étape 2 : expérimenter Le premier site que j’ai réalisé s’appelait get.info.

Full text of "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences?

What Happens in _The Dark Knight_ Spoilers, obviously. As we’ve discussed, in Batman Begins 1960s-style full employment and antipoverty programs lead to skyrocketing crime while in The Dark Knight Rises 1980s-style tough-on-crime policies and neoliberal economics lead to a revolt of the economic underclass. The films are mirror images, one about the failure of liberal policies; the other about the failure of conservative policies. In this sense, The Dark Knight is truly the final film in this nihilistic trilogy, documenting the hopelessness of anything outside that usual left-right struggle. From the start, the city is torn about how to handle the Batman, who has inspired a wave of second-rate imitators. Some believe it’s wrong to be idolizing a masked vigilante, but most (including the new DA, Harvey Dent) approve of his results. Dent is doing his own part to lock up the criminals, working inside the system. Dent decides the only way to win is to go big — really big. I was in Burma. Note the parallels.

The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz Years before he hanged himself in his Crown Heights apartment, the hacker, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz used to debate with his then-girlfriend Quinn Norton whether the Internet would mourn him if he died. It was Swartz’s stubborn belief that no one would notice or care if he died young, as he often thought he was fated to do. Like many young men of great promise and fluctuating moods, Swartz was an unstable compound of self-effacement and self-regard—among the most empowered, well-connected young people in America, yet convinced that his very existence was a burden to others, even those who loved him. There is a category of young person able to do things like contribute to the building of the Internet in their teens, or sell their tech start-ups for millions of dollars when they are 19, or rally a million opponents to a major piece of legislation when they are in their twenties. By the time he was 17, Swartz had already secured a permanent legacy written in code.