The boy who could change the world: the writings of Aaron Swartz

Free culture / introduction by Benjamin Mako Hill and Seth Schoen. Counterpoint : downloading isn't stealing ; UTI interview with Aaron Swartz ; Jefferson : nature wants to be free ; Guerilla open access manifesto ; The fruits of mass collaboration ; The techniques of mass collaboration : a third way out ; Wikimedia at the crossroads ; Who writes Wikipedia? ; Who runs Wikipedia? ; Making more Wikipedians ; Making more Wikipedias ; Code, and other laws of Wikipedia ; False outliers ; (The dandy Warhols) come down ; Up with facts : finding the truth in WikiCourt ; Welcome, Watchdog.net ; A database of folly ; When is transparency useful? ; How we stopped SOPA

Computers / introduction by David Auerbach. Excerpt : a programmable web ; Privacy, accuracy, security : pick two ; Fixing compulsory licensing ; Postel's law has no exceptions ; Squaring the triangle : secure, decentralized, human-readable names ; Release late, release rarely ; Bake, don't fry ; Building baked sites ; A brief history of Ajax ; djb ; A non-programmer's apology

Politics / introduction by David Segal. How Congress works ; Keynes, explained briefly ; Toward a larger left ; Professional politicians beware! ; The attraction of the center ; The conservative nanny state ; Political entrepreneurs and lunatics with money ; Postscript by Henry Farrell

Media / introduction by Cory Doctorow. The book that changed my life ; The invention of objectivity ; Shifting the terms of debate : how big business covered up global warming ; Making noise : how right-wing think tanks get the word out ; Endorsing racism : the story of The Bell Curve ; Spreading lies : how think tanks ignore the facts ; Saving business : the origins of right-wing think tanks ; Hurting seniors : the attack on Social Security ; Fighting back : responses to the mainstream media ; What journalists don't : lessons from the Times ; Rachel Carson : mass murderer? ; Is undercover over? Disguise seen as deceit by timid journalists

Books and culture / introduction by James Grimmelmann. Recommended books ; Guest review by Aaron Swartz : Chris Hayes' The Twilight of the Elites ; Freakonomics ; The immorality of freakonomics ; In offense of classical music ; A unified theory of magazines ; On intellectual dishonesty ; The smalltalk question

Unschool / introduction by Astra Taylor. School ; Welcome to unschooling ; School rules ; The writings of John Holt ; Apprentice education ; Intellectual diversity at Stanford ; David Horowitz on academic freedom ; What it means to be an intellectual ; Getting it wrong.