Please send your photos, stories, and quotes to his memorial website:
Remember Aaron Swartz | Official family statement about his death
There will be a funeral on Tuesday in Chicago. Memorials in a few cities over the next two weeks: including Boston, New York, DC and SF.
Essays:
Danny: He was funny
“Update: We talked. Ada cried, then we hugged, then Ada suggested we have a goodbye party, with ice-cream and sprinkles and a movie, and make a board where we could pin all our memories. We laughed at how funny he was. Aaron taught her so well.”
Tim Berners-Lee: “Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder…”
James Grimmelmann: Aaron Swartz, Was 26.
Cory Doctorow: RIP Aaron Swartz.
“Uncompromising, Reckless and Delightful”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz
Quinn Norton: “My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved.”
“Make the world that wouldn’t have killed him, please.”
Larry Lessig: on Aaron and the prosecutor as bully.
“He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius.
A soul, a conscience, the source of a question
I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think?”
Brewster Kahle: Aaron Swartz, Hero of the Open World, Dies
Erik Moeller and Tilman Bayer: Remembering Aaron Swartz
JSTOR: heartfelt condolences honoring Aaron’s memory.
Doc Searls: Losing Aaron
Chris Hayes, MSNBC: The Brilliant Mind and Righteous Heart of Aaron Swartz will be missed.
Media:
New York Times (front page).
The Guardian (front page + 4 more articles)
WaPo’s Tim Lee: “Aaron Swartz, American Hero”
Hacker News front page today:
