{"id":1699,"date":"2013-01-12T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2013-01-12T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:25:29","slug":"rip-aaron-swartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/rip-aaron-swartz\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Aaron Swartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in academic publishing. My grandparents founded a publishing company<\/a>. My father ran it for a decade. I sit on the board of directors. You could say academic publishing is in my blood.<\/p>\n

Today I am nauseous. Aaron Swartz is dead<\/a>. I don’t know whether or not he would be alive today if he wasn’t prosecuted so aggressively<\/a> for “stealing” academic journal articles. But what I do know is that this is a dark day in our history. It is a stain on the entire academic publishing industry. <\/p>\n

I fiercely believe that as academic publishers we make the world a better place. We do good. I also believe there is a place for publishers in the Internet age. We’re working hard to figure out how to navigate these times. But everyone involved in this industry should be ashamed today. <\/p>\n

We lost a genius. We lost a rebel.<\/p>\n

I’m proud to be in publishing. But today I am nauseous. Today I am deeply sad. Today I am ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in academic publishing. My grandparents founded a publishing company. My father ran it for a decade. I sit on the board of directors. You could say academic publishing is in my blood. Today I am nauseous. Aaron Swartz is dead. I don’t know whether or not he would be alive today if he wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t