Evan Ratliff
Encyclopedia
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. His article The Zombie Hunters: On the trail of cyberextortionists, written for The New Yorker
in 2005, was featured in The best of technology writing 2006.
. The Google Wave
development group has proposed using the phenomenal ploy as a test case
for the new technology pushing the frontier of real-time web activity. NewsCloud set up its Facebook application community technology to report on the story and enhance community behind the #vanish hash tag. Ratliff used his specially created blog to taunt the "hunters", and Facebook
groups emerged to team up and find him and others groups formed to help him remain at large He was tracked to and found on September 8, 2009 in New Orleans by @vanishteam, a group participating in the challenge to find him.
Wired also released a playlist of songs from Evan which can be listened to and downloaded.
The @runningratliff may also be Evan posting and includes the DVD Pursuit, a 1972 Michael Crichton film featuring Martin Sheen - set in San Diego. @runningratliff also mentions SDIA (thought to be San Diego International Airport). See Is Evan in San Diego?
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
in 2005, was featured in The best of technology writing 2006.
Experiment
He conducted an experiment by vanishing as far as knowledge of his physical whereabouts. Wired offered a $5000 reward for anyone who could find him. During the experiment, he was still "on the grid" and communicating with his followers on TwitterTwitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
. The Google Wave
Google Wave
Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google Inc. originally developed it as Google Wave.It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009....
development group has proposed using the phenomenal ploy as a test case
Test case
A test case in software engineering is a set of conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether an application or software system is working correctly or not. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test...
for the new technology pushing the frontier of real-time web activity. NewsCloud set up its Facebook application community technology to report on the story and enhance community behind the #vanish hash tag. Ratliff used his specially created blog to taunt the "hunters", and Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
groups emerged to team up and find him and others groups formed to help him remain at large He was tracked to and found on September 8, 2009 in New Orleans by @vanishteam, a group participating in the challenge to find him.
Clues
Ratliff left a coded message FaLiLV/tRD:aN/HA:aSaTS; TW—tRS/tEKAA/tBotV; FSF—TItN/tGG/tCCoBB; JC—LJ/HoD/aOoP; JM—JGS/MWS/tBotH; which has been translated to the authors and titles of books.Wired also released a playlist of songs from Evan which can be listened to and downloaded.
The @runningratliff may also be Evan posting and includes the DVD Pursuit, a 1972 Michael Crichton film featuring Martin Sheen - set in San Diego. @runningratliff also mentions SDIA (thought to be San Diego International Airport). See Is Evan in San Diego?