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QuickTime Video Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week s installment of the Berkman Center s Luncheon Series. Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more. Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com. + Open Library demo + Open Library vision + Aaron Swartz’s website Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here. Runtime: 1:03:52, size: 320×240, 178MB, .MOV, H.264 codec Share and Enjoy:

QuickTime Video Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week s installment of the Berkman Center s Luncheon Series. Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more. Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com. + Open Library demo + Open Library vision + Aaron Swartz’s website Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here. Runtime: 1:03:52, size: 320×240, 178MB, .MOV, H.264 codec Share and Enjoy:

QuickTime Video Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more. Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com. + Open Library demo + Open Library vision + Aaron Swartz’s website Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here. Runtime: 1:03:52, size: 320×240, 178MB, .MOV, H.264 codec

Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week s installment of the Berkman Center s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:39) Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more. Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com. + Open Library demo + Open Library vision + Aaron Swartz’s website Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here. Share and Enjoy: