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[[Evan Ratliff]] from [[w:Wired Magazine|Wired Magazine]] is conducting an experiment by seemingly vanishing as far as knowledge of his physical whereabouts.<ref> [http://www.wired.com/vanish/ Wired.com/vanish]</ref>. Wired has offered a $5000 reward for anyone who can find him. He is still "on the grid" and at large but communicating with his followers on [[w:Twitter|Twitter]]. <ref>[http://www.twitter.com/theatavist @theativist] (Evan Ratliff's [[Twitter]] account)</ref> The [[w:publicity stunt|publicity stunt]] may be to call attention to Internet related unemployment. <ref>[http://unemploymentality.com/2009/08/where-in-the-world-is-evan-ratliff/ Where in the world is Evan Ratliff?]</ref> The [[w:Google Wave|Google Wave]] development group has even proposed using the phenomenal ploy as a [[w:test case|test case]] for the new technology pushing the frontier of real-time web activity. <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api/browse_thread/thread/d6ee93fcf6b46e7e?hl=en Google Wave API group post]</ref> Ratliff is using his specially created blog to taunt the "hunters" <ref>[http://evanoffgrid.blogspot.com/ EvanOffGrid Blog]</ref>. [[w:Facebook|Facebook]] groups have emerged to team up and find him <ref>[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116687223067 The Search for Evan Ratliff]</ref> or to help him remain at large <ref>[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139013870989 Run, Evan, Run!]</ref> | |||
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[[Evan Ratliff]] | [[Evan Ratliff]] is a contributor to [[w:Wired Magazine|Wired Magazine]] and one of the coauthors of ''Safe: the race to protect ourselves in a newly dangerous world''.<ref>{{citation | year=2005 | title = Safe: the race to protect ourselves in a newly dangerous world | author1=Martha Baer | author2=Katrina Heron | author3=Oliver Morton | author4=Evan Ratliff | publisher=HarperCollins | isbn=9780060577155 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YlvvzkXSXiAC}}</ref> His article ''The Zombie Hunters: On the trail of cyberextortionists'', written for [[w:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]] in 2005,<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010fa_fact</ref> was featured in ''The best of technology writing 2006''.<ref>{{citation | year=2006 | title = The best of technology writing 2006 | editor=Brendan I. Koerner | publisher=University of Michigan Press | isbn=9780472031955 | page=264 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HWlhWVD4gdYC&pg=PA264&dq=evan-ratliff}}</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:14, 18 November 2010
Evan Ratliff from Wired Magazine is conducting an experiment by seemingly vanishing as far as knowledge of his physical whereabouts.[1]. Wired has offered a $5000 reward for anyone who can find him. He is still "on the grid" and at large but communicating with his followers on Twitter. [2] The publicity stunt may be to call attention to Internet related unemployment. [3] The Google Wave development group has even proposed using the phenomenal ploy as a test case for the new technology pushing the frontier of real-time web activity. [4] Ratliff is using his specially created blog to taunt the "hunters" [5]. Facebook groups have emerged to team up and find him [6] or to help him remain at large [7]
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Evan Ratliff is a contributor to Wired Magazine and one of the coauthors of Safe: the race to protect ourselves in a newly dangerous world.[8] His article The Zombie Hunters: On the trail of cyberextortionists, written for The New Yorker in 2005,[9] was featured in The best of technology writing 2006.[10]
References
- ↑ Wired.com/vanish
- ↑ @theativist (Evan Ratliff's Twitter account)
- ↑ Where in the world is Evan Ratliff?
- ↑ Google Wave API group post
- ↑ EvanOffGrid Blog
- ↑ The Search for Evan Ratliff
- ↑ Run, Evan, Run!
- ↑ Martha Baer; Katrina Heron; Oliver Morton; Evan Ratliff (2005), Safe: the race to protect ourselves in a newly dangerous world, HarperCollins, ISBN 9780060577155, http://books.google.com/books?id=YlvvzkXSXiAC
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010fa_fact
- ↑ Brendan I. Koerner, ed. (2006), The best of technology writing 2006, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 9780472031955, http://books.google.com/books?id=HWlhWVD4gdYC&pg=PA264&dq=evan-ratliff