Daily Dot: Aaron Swartz Day Aims To Right Legal Wrongs
Aaron Swartz Day Aims To Right Legal Wrongs by Kate Conger for the Daily Dot From the article: Swartz was a bright young programmer who committed suicide while facing prosecution under the Computer...
View ArticleRT: Internet hacktivists hold global ‘hackathon’ in honor of Aaron Swartz’s...
Internet hacktivists hold global ‘hackathon’ in honor of Aaron Swartz’s birthday November 8, 2014 for RT From the article: Online hacktivists are holding a “hackathon” spanning two days to honor the...
View Article‘Inspiration for people, threat to US govt’ – Aaron Swartz film director to RT
‘Inspiration for people, threat to US govt’ – Aaron Swartz film director to RT November 9, 2014 for RT Download link to video piece that goes with this article. From the interview: RT: Aaron Swartz...
View ArticleThe Daily Dot On Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
Celebrating Aaron Swartz at the Internet Archive hackathon by Kate Conger for the Daily Dot. From the article: Prosecutors painted him as the bad kind of hacker—the Hollywood sort who breaks into...
View ArticleTruthdig on Aaron Swartz Day: A Vital Legacy Lives On
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Daniel J. Sieradski CC BY-SA Aaron Swartz Day: A Vital Legacy Lives On By Thor Benson for Truthdig. From the Article: Swartz would have been 28 years this week, on Nov. 8....
View ArticleDigital Journal: Activists hold worldwide ‘hackathon’ in memory of Aaron Swartz
Activists hold worldwide ‘hackathon’ in memory of Aaron Swartz By Brett Wilkins for Digital Journal. From the article: …Swartz has become something of a martyr. Not in some pathetic, quixotic way. His...
View ArticleAaron Swartz Was No Criminal; Was Fully “Authorized” to Download JSTOR Articles
Aaron Swartz Was No Criminal By Dan Purcell for BoingBoing. From the article: You might ask, like I did, what Aaron’s actions had to do with “computer crimes.” Aaron hadn’t broken into a secure network...
View ArticleNewsweek Covers the Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon
Newsweek’s Seung Lee came by the hackathon on Saturday. He’s written a nice piece that I’d missed last week :-) Inside the Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon By Seung Lee for Newsweek Side view of Saturday’s...
View ArticleThe Kitchen Sisters Profile Aaron Swartz Day Co-Founder Lisa Rein as “The...
Aaron Swartz Day as told by Lisa Rein Aaron Swartz Day co-founder Lisa Rein talks about about her work with the annual hackathon. Founded in 2013 after the death of activist and programming wunderkind...
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