Tag: Aaron Swartz

The New Republic on Aaron Swartz: “So Open It Hurts”

From So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz, a great piece by Noam Scheiber in The New Republic: Tim Berners-Lee, the MIT professor whose bio immodestly (if accurately) claims he “invented the World Wide Web,” met…

RIP Aaron Swartz

“Born in 1986, Swartz has co-authored the first specification of RSS when he was 14. He also started Infogami, a service founded by Y Combinator that was later merged with social networking site Reddit.”