FYI, Noam Cohen has been covering free culture-related issues for the Times for a while; he's the one who usually writes their Wikipedia stories.
Point being, it's a potential opportunity to amplify some of what Aaron believed in, as Cohen has the background to understand it and write clearly about it. I just got to the end of a conversation with the director of photography of The Wall Street Journal, who wanted to use a portrait I made, but (it turns out, after about 5 rounds of email) even "Sage Ross/Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0" was too much to ask of them. But I think I was able to convey the point of the license, and why it was important to me that they follow the license if they were going to use it. -Sage On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm extending this conversation to discuss as well... > > Although we may not know all of the circumstances surrounding his passing, > it is symbolic of the increasingly stressed and divided climate that exists > between the law and information culture. This NYT article is an chance for > us to make a statement in honor of Aaron and his work. One person alone may > not be the best person to say something, but we can collectively try and put > something together--begin to brainstorm things we might say, and then > prepare a statement for this Noam fellow by tomorrow morning... thoughts? > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I feel like shit and have nothing to say to anyone about this and I'm >> not the right person to talk to this guy anyway but it seems like >> someone should write him back. Even if the statement is something as >> simple as, "Out of grief, Students for Free Culture politely declines >> to talk to the press about Aaron Swartz's death right now." >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Noam Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi there -- I sent a version of this e-mail to Adi Kamdar -- my contact >> > more >> > than a year ago for an article about Aaron Swartz. I haven't gotten a >> > response, and I am hoping someone from this movement can get back to me >> > by >> > tomorrow morning for a piece I am writing. >> > >> > You can imagine the sad circumstances I am writing about now. >> > Because of the last article I wrote about Aaron Swartz, I was asked to >> > take >> > a day and look at what these meant (if anything) for the free culture >> > movement. >> > I won't write a long note now -- are you the right person to be speaking >> > with? >> > Also, I'd love the opportunity to chat with you (or the right person) to >> > sound out ideas -- it is easy to overreact to such sad news; I want to >> > be >> > accurate with our readers about what Aaron meant in life and death. >> > I can be reached at 347-525-5655; or I can call you. >> > Looking forward to speaking with you again, >> > Noam >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Core mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/core >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Core mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/core > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
