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Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?

Is he "famous" for no reason? He speaks at web 2.0 conferences, there are stories about him on news.yc all the time... (Yes, I'm using the word "famous" liberally.) Why? What has he done exactly?Here's what I've got. Feel free to add more. He:a) worked on rss 1.0 when he was 13. woopty-doob) there was the Infogami - Reddit merger, which made the AOL - Time Warner merger look like a...

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