http://www.wired.com/vanish/

hope it isnt a repost

 

Wow! That's some story.

 

Sure. Really realistic, too, blogging all your movements for someone to find. Anyone that wanted to disappear would not write where they are, where they've been, and what they're doing.

He got caught because someone broke his alter identity and that allowed them to read everything he wrote. Someone really trying to disappear isn't going to do something that stupid.

 

cliff notes!!! and why was he running?

 

It was a challenge/contest as to whether he could disappear for 30 days without anyone finding him.

 

Why in the world would you need cliff notes? It was spelled out in the first couple of paragraphs.

 

pretty cool read

 

He should have went to Caracas, where magician is going. Not notified anyone I am certain he would have disappeared.

 

wow. that's a lot of pages. definitely will give it a read when i get home after some of the praises it's gotten from you guys

 

If not for the idea of trying to disappear in the information age, the way people jumped onto the project to try and track down the guy is really, really cool.