The City with No Heart

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Aaron Swartz[Edit][Delete]: The City with No Heart, Raw Thought [Edit][Delete] December 7, 2006
I remember back several years ago when Aaron Swartz, along with some other people, made RSS what it is today. He was 13 years old or something at the time and spoke as eloquently in software as anyone I've read. He is a few years older now and beginning to explore the world, giving us here his impressions of Los Angeles (with a drive-by glimpse of Cory Doctorow and Danah Boyd while he's at it). Best line: "I [Swartz] should become an academic, she [Boyd] says. Shake up the system just like her. But why join the system in the first place?, I say". More...