Aaron's writing has been published in everything from technical journals to popular publications. His work has been featured in The Best Software Writing I and The Best Technology Writing 2007.


Selected publications:

"Theory of the Game", Other 13 (February 2008)

"Pursuing the ancient dream of an Open Library" [PDF], Panlibus 7 (Autumn 2007)

"Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth", Extra! (September/October 2007) (version with links)

"A Non-Programmer's Apology", in Stephen Levy (ed.), The Best Technology Writing 2007 (University of Michigan Press, 2007)

"Eight Reasons Why (Some) Wikis Work", Personal Democracy Forum (12 December 2007)

"Ringside at Lessig Copyright Bout", Wired.com's 27B Stroke 6 (13 November 2006)

"PowerPoint Remix", in Joel Spolsky (ed.), The Best Software Writing I (Apress, 2005)

various hacks, in Tara Calishan & Rael Dornfest, Google Hacks (O'Reilly, 2ed, 2004)

Swartz, A. and Hendler, J. "The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City", Proceedings Second Annual Digital Cities Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2001. (HTML, based on The Semantic Web in Breadth)

Aaron Swartz, "MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2002, pp. 76-77. (PDF, old HTML)

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