TITLE: Aaron Swartz 

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= Aaron Swartz[1] = 

weblog[2] * twitter[3] * links[4] * quotes[5] 

*Aaron Swartz* is the founder and director of Demand Progress[6], a nonprofit 
political action group with over a million members. He is also a Contributing 
Editor to _The Baffler[7]_.  

He is the author of numerous articles on a variety of topics, especially *the 
corrupting influence of big money on institutions* including nonprofits[8], the 
media[9], politics[10], and public opinion[11]. In conjunction with Shireen 
Barday, he downloaded and analyzed 441,170 law review articles to determine the 
source of their funding; the results were published in the _Stanford Law Review
_[12]. From 2010-11, he researched these topics as a Fellow at the Harvard 
Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. 

He has also assisted many other researchers in collecting and *analyzing large 
data sets* with theinfo.org[13]. His landmark analysis of Wikipedia, Who Writes 
Wikipedia?[14], has been widely cited. Working with Web inventor Tim 
Berners-Lee at MIT[15], he helped develop[16] and popularize[17] standards for 
sharing data on the Web. He also coauthored the RSS 1.0 specification[18], now 
widely used for publishing news stories. 

In 2008, he created the nonprofit site watchdog.net[19], making it easier for 
people to find and access government data. He also served on the board of 
Change Congress[20], a good government nonprofit. 

In 2007, he led the development of the nonprofit Open Library[21], an ambitious 
project to collect information about every book ever published. He also 
cofounded the online news site Reddit[22], where he released as free software 
the web framework he developed, web.py[23]. 



me@aaronsw.com[24] (pgp[25])

last updated June 2011

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[6]  http://demandprogress.org/
[7]  http://thebaffler.com/
[8]  http://aaronsw.jottit.com/rachelcarson
[9]  http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/newobjectivity
[10] http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/01/political-entrepreneurs-and-lunatics-with-money/
[11] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/shifting1
[12] http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/content/article/punitive-damages-remunerated-research-and-legal-profession
[13] http://theinfo.org/
[14] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
[15] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/members.html
[16] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3870
[17] http://logicerror.com/semanticWeb-long
[18] http://purl.org/rss/1.0/
[19] http://watchdog.net/
[20] http://fixcongressfirst.org/
[21] http://openlibrary.org/
[22] http://reddit.com/
[23] http://webpy.org/
[24] mailto:me@aaronsw.com
[25] http://www.aaronsw.com/pgp