Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog. Via instant messenger, I interviewed him on Reddit, activism, Google and more.
Can I ask you what you"re up to these days? Are you working for Reddit as full-time programmer?
No, I left reddit several months ago.
Why did you leave?
My boss asked me to.
Can you explain what happened? ...
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 5/8/2007 8:01:07 AM
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