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These are some bits collected from around the Internet on 12 January 2013 relative to the death of Aaron Swartz.
- Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26 | Threat Level | Wired.com
- We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been. And that's just what we know. The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can't even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life.
- Aaron Swartz - James Fallows - The Atlantic
- An influential and gifted technology figure dies at age 26.
- Althouse: "Prosecutor as bully."
- Althouse: "Reddit, Creative Commons and Demand Progress co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York City on Friday, Jan. 11."
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz
- Daring Fireball Linked List: 'Unsolved Forever'
- Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Hacker and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz dies | The Verge
- Althouse: "Reddit, Creative Commons and Demand Progress co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York City on Friday, Jan. 11."
- Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old who helped build internet institutions like Reddit and Creative Commons, committed suicide in New York yesterday. The news was confirmed by MIT newspaper The Tech,...
- Internet activist, programmer Aaron Swartz dead at 26 | Reuters
- (Reuters) - Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped create an early version of the Web feed system RSS and later played a key role in stopping an online piracy bill in Congress,
- johnsu01: Aaron Swartz
- Aaron was an inspiration to me personally, politically, and professionally ever since we met (ice cream and word games with a small group in a bank vault at Herrell's in Harvard Square) several years ago. I don't understand how things got to this point, but I know I'm angry along with Lessig. I'm…
- Lessig Blog, v2 -- Prosecutor as bully
- Prosecutor as bully (Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.) Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two...
- Online activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide, relative says - CNN.com
- Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and became a digital activist, has committed suicide.
- Reddit Co-founder Meets Tragic End | FOX8.com – Cleveland news & weather from WJW Television FOX 8
- By David Ariosto, CNNNEW YORK (CNN) -- Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who co-founded Reddit and co-wrote the initial specification for RSS, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26.
- RIP, Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing
- Web Mourns Internet Activist Aaron Swartz, 26 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Swartz commits suicide exactly two years after his arrest for downloading 4.8 million academic articles via MIT.