Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Louis Barnett, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Zuckerberg, Manpreet Singh, Farrah Gray, P-Star, Gurbaksh Chahal, Conrad Windham, Net News Daily, Adam Daniel Spencer, Aaron Swartz, Nick Bell, Fraser Doherty, Cameron Johnson, Ben Woldring, Tom Thurlow. Excerpt: Aaron Swartz Aaron Swartz (born November 8, 1986) is a writer, activist, and programmer. He is currently co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee . At age 14, he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C s RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber , and has been involved in many other projects. Swartz was the founder of Infogami, a startup that was part of Y Combinator s first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, leaving to work on his company full-time. Infogami merged with reddit to form not a bug but failed to take off. In late 2006, reddit was sold to CondéNet (the online arm of Condé Nast Publications and the owners of Wired ) and Swartz moved with his company to San Francisco . In January 2007, Swartz was asked to resign from his position at Wired Digital. In September 2007, Swartz, together with Simon Carstensen, launched Jottit, a website service quite similar to Infogami. Jottit was launched from bitbots.net, a project by Swartz and Carstensen. Swartz is also the creator of the web.py web application framework , based on the Python programming language , which is used by Jottit (and previously reddit). Swartz is an active blogger and has written a number of widely read essays on his blog . Two of his more well-known pieces are "Who Writes Wikipedia", an article examining the contributions to Wikipedia articles written during his candidacy for the Wikimedia Foundation board el...Price: $19.99
