Aaron Swartz

Cory Doctorow describes the life and work of Aaron Swartz: RIP, Aaron Swartz. I never met Swartz, but I used to read a lot of his writings; amazingly, thinking back about it, I was reading his work when he was 17 years old. I remember being particularly struck by some of his writings during his brief studies at Stanford. I see that many of those essays were at some point removed from the web, though you can still read some of them here and here.