Evan Ratliff
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