John M. Kennedy remembering the contributions of Aaron Hillel Swartz.
"You have to believe you can accomplish something because once you believe that, you're half way to actually doing something".
Aaron Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. He was a co-founder of the social news website Reddit, and a co-founder of Demand Progress, which launched the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act. Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, and the website framework web.py, and was a partner in the Internet archive company Infogami. On January 11, 2013, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.** (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013)
Help with the Developing of Web feed format RSS, The Technical architecture of Creative Commons, the web site format Web.py, Markdown with John Gruber , the social aggregation site Reddit.
