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Contact me: (in order of availability) Email (PGP key), IRC, AIM, ICQ.
Psst. Who is he?
Aaron Swartz is teenage writer, programmer and hacker. He's the RDF Advisor to the Creative Commons project led by Larry Lessig. As a Semantic Web developer, he's a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group, the DCMI's Architecture Working Group and the independent RSS-DEV Working Group. He is a co-founder of the Semantic Web Agreement Group and 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 board he just sits and waits for The Singularity occur. He's currently guessing it'll happen in 2012.
Where can I find you?
I don't get out as much as I'd like, but here are my current travel plans:
- 7-11 May 2002: Honolulu, Hawaii for WWW2002, to speak on the Plesh
- 13-16 May 2002: San Jose, California for O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, to help present the Creative Commons
Web hideouts: dmoz, Advogato, metafilter, SourceForge, RDFWeb, Bitzi, Hack the Planet.
So Aaron, what are you interested in?
I want to make the Internet a great place for reading, writing and collaboration. For most of history we had a select few writing and many people reading their work but with the Web we have more tools than ever to allow everyone to be a writer and a reader. However, I see collaboration as a great place for technological exploration and strongly believe that by creating tools to make collaboration easier, we will see major changes in society's structure.
Tech News from the Swhack Weblog
Mornington Dictionary (1999 ed.)
AaronSw: see also the 2002 ed.
AaronSw: <sbp> a game almost built for me
sbp: hey! you can't prove that I said that
Personal News from Aaron's Weblog
Rescued Data
I've finally rescued the data off one of my oldest machines, snicker-snack. One of the things I recovered was the...
Rescued Data
I've finally rescued the data off one of my oldest machines, snicker-snack. One of the things I recovered was the...
Today's Hack: display.cgi
I just whipped up display.cgi (source), a little CGI script to display some HTML that you type in. I've wanted...
Aaron Swartz Movies
Introducing: Aaron Swartz Movies, proving my insanity once again. Let me know what you think....
Noam on Terrorism
Noam Chomsky: The New War Against Terrorism. Chomsky is the kind of person who is so eminently reasonable that you...
On my website, LogicError, I keep track of tools that help with these three things. Here's a short overview:
Reading
- Information Distribution
- Information Feed
- Query
- Google (official, weblog)
- RDF Query
- Databases (PostgreSQL, BerkeleyDB, IronDoc, ZODB)
Writing
- Writing Spaces
- Wiki (original, book)
- Blogspace (official)
- Weblogs (Dave, Rebecca Blood)
- Annotations
- Media
- Data
Collaboration
- Programs and Process
- Issue Resolution
- Fighting (arguments, gladiators, executive branch)
- Arbitration (judicial branch)
- Voting (legislative branch)
- Security
- Crypto
- Anonymity
- Psuedonymity
- Decentralization
- Redundancy
- Emergence
- Discussion
- Consensus