Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide

Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide

Those three sentences are a perfect description of one of Graham's mentees in particular: Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz, right, took his life on Friday. He was 26. (Image from Flickr account CreativeCommoners). Swartz was not a patient man. With immense

Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York

Web entrepreneur and political activist Aaron Swartz, who made headlines in 2011 when he was charged with hacking into MIT's network and mass downloading millions of documents from a subscription-based archive, took his life in Brooklyn Friday,

Aaron Swartz, online activist and co-founder of social networking site Reddit, has committed suicide in New York City on Jan. 11, the Tech reports.

Those three sentences are a perfect description of one of Graham's mentees in particular: Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz, right, took his life on Friday. He was 26. (Image from Flickr account CreativeCommoners). Swartz was not a patient man. With immense