Aaron Swartz is currently writing what might become a novel called Bubble City, publishing chapter by chapter on his blog. [Please note spoilers follow.] The story follows developer Jason, who moves to a semi-corrupt, tech-bubble-ish San Francisco for his new job at news aggregator website Newsflip. Google is also playing a part in the story as a company trying to bribe video bloggers into promoting views helpful to their platform.
Soon the story picks up some heat as Jason stumbles on a conspiracy of sorts when he finds out that one of the online news industry"s standard modules used on Newsflip, Google N ...
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