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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:16:02 +0000

[...] He was funny – Danny O'Brien on aaronsw and discovery and humor. [...]

By: An honest Blog about an prodigious, exceptional, genuine perhaps a little anachronistic Human person. I wish, we captured him and protected his liberties. Or high fived those assholes with a chair- who fear change and Freedom of information. Cheers for be

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:38:12 +0000

[...] who were all in various states of disarray. I watched as many of them poured out theirhearts on their blogs, a practice we’ve all been doing for over a decade. And yet, I couldn’t find the [...]

By: Aaron Swartz: The Cost of Free Information | Article 3

Aaron Swartz: The Cost of Free Information | Article 3 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:25:04 +0000

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By: Alicia

Alicia — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:29:48 +0000

Aaron Swartz:….A Brilliant Mind, so Full of Life, so Young, so much to Offer to Humanity….and is now Silenced. ….One has to wonder: Are we as a Global Society loosing our Humanity?…God help us all.

By: processing the loss of Aaron Swartz « Just Reform

processing the loss of Aaron Swartz « Just Reform — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:51:05 +0000

By: Babs

Babs — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:11:51 +0000

Sorry

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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:11:23 +0000

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By: In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:44:53 +0000

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By: danny

danny — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:21:38 +0000

danah and I have talked about this a lot. I think it is partly being a product of a new system that creates fame and high levels of individual responsibility without fortune, or the social tools to protect ourselves. It’s not just a geek thing, the same thing is hitting youtube celebrities or the exposed sudden heroes of disasters. I know she was looking to see how Hollywood and entertainment industry deals with it, if only because a) they clearly have a problem with similar exposure, and b) they’ve been around a long time.

By: Evan Prodromou

Evan Prodromou — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:49:31 +0000

Danny, thanks so much for this.

I have to ask: is there something wrong in our community? Len, Ilya, and Aaron have all died of suicide in the last 18 months. I feel like I’m getting my third DUI — like we’re making some obvious mistake over and over that we should have learned from the first time.

Is it reductive of each tragedy to draw lines between them? Or is it reckless blindness to ignore a pattern?

Is there something we can do?