I never met Aaron Swartz, though I certainly knew of him. I’ve been teaching library school students about him since his 2011 arrest for sneaking into an MIT server closet to mass-download the contents of JSTOR. I learned of his death by his own hand via airport wireless, early on the morning of Saturday, January 12. Exhausted by a week of teaching a data-curation bootcamp for librarians and digital humanists, the most I could muster was a weak, aghast “aigh. no.”
The Opportune Moment: Why and How To Leverage Unexpected Events | Peer to Peer Review
By on January 15, 2013 3 Comments
Internet Activist and Developer, Aaron Swartz, Dead at the Age of 26
By on January 12, 2013
UPDATED January 14, 3pm: Librarians Nominate Aaron Swartz for ALA’s James Madison Award In a new post on the Free Government Information weblog titled, “We’ve nominated Aaron Swartz for the ALA James Madison award and you should too!”, James R. Jacobs (one of the blog’s co-founders), asks readers to contact ALA and support the nomination. [...]
Inside the Shadow Factory | Peer to Peer Review
By on July 28, 2011
Photo by Debora Miller When Aaron Swartz, an open information activist, was indicted by federal prosecutors for downloading as much of JSTOR as he could using a laptop computer wired into MIT’s servers (and of course without authorization from JSTOR or MIT), people’s responses stake out the extreme opposites of approaches to accessing research in [...]
