Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide
“Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment…”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activ…