This is an archived copy of Aaron's homepage in 2002.
More: current homepage, other old homepages.
Psst. Who is he?
Aaron Swartz is teenage writer, programmer and hacker. He's the Metadata Advisor to the Creative Commons project led by Larry Lessig. As a Semantic Web developer, he's a member of the RDF Core W3C's Working Group, the DCMI's Architecture Working Group and the independent RSS-DEV Working Group. He founded and runs the web.resource.org project and is co-author of RSS 1.0. His latest project is the Plesh, a decentralized network that will provide the platform for the next generation of network applications.
In his copious free time he reads Science Fiction, builds snowmen, composes songs and tries to play the piano. When he's really bored he just sits and waits for The Singularity to occur. He's currently guessing it'll happen in 2012 (why?).
from Aaron's Weblog
won't anyone think of the starving?
The Onion: Kid Rock Starves to Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed. Right on target. Hillary Rosen: "Why would anyone in their...
IMMINENT END OF NET PREDICTED (source code at 11)
Curious Yellow. There, I said it. I've been struggling over whether or not to say that for a while now....
new arguments
Daryl Hanson has an argument against the CTEA I hadn't heard before [Lessig]: Many authors created works with the implicit...
patently "fair use"
Article I, Section 8: "The Congress shall have power to [...] promote the progress of science and useful arts, by...
books for reading at the Eldred victory party (or if you move to australia)
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu has a list of books that you cannot read in the US, at least not until the Supreme Court...
Quick Links
Nearby: My Weblog, Schoolyard Subversion, Photo Gallery, Movie Collection, Vanity
Media Empire: Headquarters, LogicError, Swhack Weblog, Google Weblog, Warchalking.
Contact me: (in order of availability) Email (PGP key), IRC, AIM, ICQ.
Where can I find you?
I don't get out as much as I'd like, but here are my current travel plans:
- Places I've been...
- 9-10 September 2002: New York, New York for Creative Commons F2F (tenative)
- 8-9 October 2002: Washington D.C. for the Eldred case
- Someday: Toronto, Canada for WTFcon (tenative)
- 18-22 November 2002: Las Vegas, Nevada for Comdex Fall (tenative)
I'd love to come see you if you'll pay for my expenses.
Web hideouts: dmoz, Advogato, metafilter, SourceForge, RDFWeb, Bitzi, Hack the Planet.
And of course the obligatory Amazon.com Wish List. Mostly this is a way for me to keep track of books I want to check out from the library, but the few that aren't available at the library (or that I want personal copies of) are labeled.
So Aaron, what are you interested in?
I have a passion for sharing information over the web and creating tools to make reading, writing and collaboration easier and more fun. I have strong political views including the belief that useful information should be free for all to share and enjoy and I allow most of my work to be redistributed in any medium and only write free software. I also work on decentralized networks to make distributing information easier and faster.
On my website, LogicError, I keep track of people, places, patterns and things that align with my interests. I hope to enhance this repository with an RDF version to make it more useful.
If you want to send me something I'm not interested in, please send a copy to abell@notabug.com first, so that it can be automatically deleted for me. Thanks!