Remembering Aaron Swartz

I did not know Aaron at all personally, but I’ve followed his work in a variety of ways — from loving the way RSS works, to caring about open access publication, to reddit.com, and so on. The sadness is deep. Here are a few reflections by others who knew him:

• His family and friends
• Lawrence Lessig
• Alex Stamos
• Cory Doctorow
• Ethan Zuckerman
• A huge long list of memorials, courtesy of Doc Searls
• AKM Adam
• danah boyd
• David Weinberger
• The New Yorker

Here is Democracy Now’s story:

Here is the speech referred to in the story above: