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Boy wonder posts online novel to kill slow news day

By Paul Boutin, 3:10 PM on Tue Jan 1 2008, 1,127 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Reddit founder and teenage RSS co-developer Aaron Swartz has been posting chapters to Bubble City, a novel in progress. The guy's no Gore Vidal, but with today even slower than Christmas on the Internet, an 11-chapter serial about corrupt startups and an eeeeevil Google may be just what you need to kick back with until Cory Doctorow's next dispatch.
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