Evan Ratliff
Evan Ratliff | |
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Born | Template:4/23/1975 |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable credit(s) | The Atavist, Wired Magazine, The New Yorker |
Salary | 100K |
Spouse(s) | Samantha Ratliff |
Evan Ratliff (born c. 1976)[1] is an American journalist and author. He is CEO and co-founder of Atavist, a media and software company.[1] Ratliff is a contributor to Wired Magazine and The New Yorker.
Contents
1 Career
1.1 "Vanishing" experiment
2 References
3 External links
Career
Ratliff is one of the co-authors of Safe: the Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World.[2] His article "The Zombie Hunters: On the Trail of Cyberextortionists," written for The New Yorker in 2005,[3] was featured in The Best of Technology Writing 2006.[4]
"Vanishing" experiment
Ratliff conducted an experiment by vanishing as far as knowledge of his physical whereabouts.[5] Wired offered a $5000 reward for anyone who could find him.[6] During the experiment, he was still "on the grid" and communicating with his followers on Twitter.[7] 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.[8] NewsCloud set up its Facebook application community technology [9] to report on the story and enhance community behind the #vanish hash tag.[10] Ratliff used his specially created blog to taunt the "hunters",[11] and Facebook groups emerged to team up and find him [12] and other groups formed to help him remain at large [13] He was tracked and found on September 8, 2009, in New Orleans by @vanishteam, a group participating in the challenge to find him.[14]
Ratliff left a coded message [15] 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.[16]
References
^ ab Gillette, Felix. "Innovator: Evan Ratliff, Business Week (Jan. 20, 2011).
^ Martha Baer; Katrina Heron; Oliver Morton; Evan Ratliff (2005), Safe: the race to protect ourselves in a newly dangerous world, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-057715-5.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ 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, p. 264, ISBN 978-0-472-03195-5
^ Wired.com/vanish
^ Catch This Writer If You Can and Win $5k ABC News, Aug. 26, 2009
^ @theativist (Evan Ratliff's Twitter account)
^ Google Wave API group post
^ VanishTeam
^ http://blog.newscloud.com/2009/08/newscloud-launches-quick-response-vanishteam-facebook-application-to-find-evan-ratliff-in-wireds-van.html
^ EvanOffGrid Blog
^ The Search for Evan Ratliff
^ Run, Evan, Run!
^ Thompson, Nicholas (September 8, 2009). "Evan Ratliff Is Caught!". Wired.
^ @evansvanished
^ http://vanishteam.com?p=links
External links
Wikiversity has learning resources about Evan Ratliff |
- Detailed account of "Vanishing" experiment
"12 TO WATCH IN 2012: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist – Building Software to Tell Stories," The Observer (January 18, 2012)