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Executive Summary ("tl;dr"): It hasn't worked. Google changes were the last straw. Blog over. It's been clear for a long time I've considered blogging to have been a failure, for me. I'll...

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In a legal debate over the Aaron Swartz prosecution (does any really need an explanatory link now?), Lessig has posted a response paper which has some interesting details for those who foll...

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I haven't written a long "personal" Aaron Swartz post. It's not my skill. I knew him and liked him, and was greatly saddened by his death. I recently had occasion to look back at some activism di...

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I'm going to toss this post up, with some trepidation - I don't know if it's better if it remains in the low grass of my many handfuls of readers, or if I'd rue being an ant among elephants....

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The facts: "Aaron Swartz commits suicide" : "Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11 ..." Others can write eulogies . I'm not good at that. Forg...

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New Year's Resolutions are a tradition of listing things in the next year you would like to do - but (realistically) you know that you won't (I think there should also be a tradition of "Dissolut...

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Wikia, the for-profit start-up described in a Trader Daily article as one Wikipedia co-founder's "effort to take the success -- and, indeed, the underlying philosophy -- of Wikipedia, and commer...

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For people interested in following the details of the Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case developments , the legal defense has begun. There are now filings such as a motion to dismiss "wire fraud" ch...

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Two weeks ago when I wrote about the indictment revision and expansion for the Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case (disclosure: I know him socially, and have admired his work), actually breaking news...

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I'm continuing to follow the Aaron Swartz case , which is grinding away (disclosure: I know him socially, and have admired his work). The latest development, which seems to have not been re...

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I hope I'm not drummed out of the Wikipedia Critics Guild for this post, but it's worth noting there's a hopeful proposal from the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit which owns Wikipedia and var...

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It's been more than a year since the Aaron Swartz indictment was announced (disclosure: I know him socially, and have admired his work). The court case has fallen out of the news now. But i...

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Recently Jacob Appelbaum asked about early censorware investigations. In writing back to him, I mentioned the 2001 New York Times profile of me, which I thought was called (my emphasis) "Crackin...

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Wikipedia co-Founder Larry Sanger has generated some attention from a post What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem? . Given that it's been echoed by a couple of A-listers (who have ar...

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Another Google search algorithm update, another set of implications: Petition: Google: Please kill your Penguin update > With the recent Google Penguin update, it has become near...

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