Je suis Aaron Swartz

Being an avid supporter of civil rights and the freedom  of speech, I solemnly supported the online campaign following the slaughter of twelve innocent employees at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.  The world was in shock at this brutal assault against the press.  The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie began trending around the world in the days

Citizen Journalism and the Open Source Movement

According to the Open Source Initiative open source software is software that can be freely used, changed and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.  The movement branched out from the Free Software Movement that began in the 1980s with the launch of the GNU/Linux project by Richard Stallman and the basic concept was that