Here's a summary of all the media I've seen in the aftermath of Evan Ratliff's capture. Evan's original story that prompted the contest is here - Gone Forever: What does it take to really disappear? (Wired Magazine, September 2009). Please email me if I missed any. Evan's own story will appear in the December issue of Wired Magazine.
Primary Capture Reports and Recaps:
- Vanished and Captured: Recapping the Hunt for Evan Ratliff (Wired, 9-10-09)
- How Evan Ratliff Was Caught (Wired, 9-9-09) Evan Ratliff is Caught! (Wired, 9-8-09)
- How We Caught Evan Ratliff (NewsCloud Blog - aka @VanishTeam)
- How Team Naked found a Vanishing Author (Naked Pizza Blog)
- Found (The Atavist, Evan's blog)
Radio, Television and Web Media:
- Savvy Readers Find 'Disappeared' Writer (NPR: All Things Considered 9-13-09)
- Find Evan Ratliff, Win $5000 (On the Media, 8-21-09)
- Captured: Evan Ratliff (On the Media, 9-11-09)
- Found: Wired's Missing Man (CBS News)
- Underground, but not for long (CNN.com Live)
Related Twitter Accounts and feeds:
- #vanish, the hash tag for the Vanish contest
- @vanishteam, the account used by the Vanish Team Facebook application
- @reifman, helped find clues that led to Evan's capture
- @nakedpizza, the gluten-free pizza business that found Evan in New Orleans
- @jdgatz, Evan's fake Twitter account
- @theatavist, Evan's real world Twitter account
- @nxthompson, Wired's editor Nicholas Thompson
Related Links:
- The Atavist - Evan Ratliff's blog
- NewsCloud's Facebook-based social media research
- About NewsCloud's Facebook Technology
- The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nick Thompson, recently released
- About Naked Pizza in The New York Times Magazine
