Aaron and his projects have appeared in the press numerous times, including two appearances on the front page of the Boston Globe and a profile in Wired Magazine. He has been interviewed by NPR, the BBC, and Counterspin.
Films:
- Aardvark'd!: 12 Weeks With Geeks (2005)
- Steal This Film II (2007)
Selected appearances:
Dan Tynan, "For Change, Use a Wiki: Collaborative Web sites are becoming tools for social action", US Airways Magazine, June 2008
Chris Hayes, "Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington", The Nation, 2008-05-29 (2008-06-16 issue)
Will Willkinson, "Hacking, Phreaking, and Anarchy" [video interview], Free Will, bloggingheads.tv, 2008-05-25
Patrick Sisson, "Keeping Tabs on Capitol Hill", Activate, 2008-05-08
Rebecca Roberts, "watchdog.net" [radio interview], 1600, POTUS '08, XM Radio (2008-04-16)
"Whatever Happened to Undercover Journalism?", Utne (2008-04-10 )
"Jottit and the Real Simple Web", HyveUp (2007-10) [video interview]
Janine Jackson and Peter Hart, "Stan Karp on No Child Left Behind, Aaron Swartz on Rachel Carson", Counterspin (week of 2007-10-12) [radio interview]
Boston Globe: Ever-younger entreprenuers: Internet, low costs lead to early-in-life startups (7 September 2007)
amNewYork: G-Phone: Cracking the Google mystery (7 September 2007)
SFGate: Isn't Your Kid a CEO?: These days, middle schoolers are launching startups. What's next? Second graders with IPOs? (6 September 2007)
Future Tense: Who writes Wikipedia? (6 September 2006) ∞
Boston Phoenix: Anyone can edit (11 August 2006)
PBS MediaShift: Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors? (25 July 2006)
New York Observer: When Intellectuals Had a Real Magazine: Viva Lingua Franca! (24 April 2006) ∞
Boston Globe: The Ladder Isn't The Only Way Up (accompanying photo) (19 February 2006) ∞
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Boston Globe: The idealists, the optimists, and the world they share (13 February 2006) ∞
Techsploitation: Won't Somebody Think of the Pings? (15 November 2005) ∞
Salon.com: The Fix: Will Vinnifer usurp Brangelina? Paris -- canceled! Plus: Comparing O'Reilly with McCarthy. (13 October 2005) ∞
Hartford Courant: Keeping It Really Simple: RSS News Feeds Via E-Mail: A Technology That Actually Delivers (15 September 2005) ∞ #
Wired News: Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp (13 September 2005) ∞ # (Korean edition)
Hack!: Tonårshacker med imponerande meritlista (22 June 2005) ∞/translation
Hi International: Faces: Aaron Swartz, Computer Prodigy (December 2004) ∞
Newsweek: What Your College Kid is Really Up To (13 December 2004) ∞
CNET News.com: Site seeks to spur political ad swaps (19 October 2004) ∞ #
Wired Magazine: Undergraduate Overachiever (24 August 2004) #
Wired News: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login (20 July 2004) ∞ #
Wired News: Searching for The New York Times (14 July 2004) ∞ #
San Jose Mercury News: What about the [Google] IPO? (21 April 2004) ∞ #
under the iron: [Interview with] Aaron Swartz (23 January 2004) ∞ #
Digital Citizen: Alternative Compensation Systems interview (15 December 2003) #
Day to Day: Hacker Culture and Computer Viruses (21 August 2003)
NPR Weekend Edition: Wireless Tagging (1.7MB Ogg, 2.7MB MP3, streaming RealAudio) (21 September 2003)
BBC NewsHour: Warchalking: the new phone phreaking? (1.8MB Ogg, 3.2MB MP3) (19 September 2003)
San Jose Mercury News: Dan Gillmor: The technology behind Napster is far from dead (14 May 2002) ∞
Ask Tim: Books for a Younger Audience (December 2001) ∞
Sunday Times: Teenager in a million (29 April 2001)
Metafilter: Boy Genius (26 February 2001) ∞
Mass High Tech: ArsDigita Foundation awards Net design prize to under-18 crowd [JPG] (10 July 2000)
AP: Teens spin Web of future (24 June 2000)
Chicago Tribune: Highland Park teen is finalist in Web competition (23 June 2000)