Fat Dog To The Big Apple: January 2011

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Fat Dog To The Big Apple 61 : Pig's Ears, Black Elk And Herman's Hermits

"No, not pig's ear, new year". I sometimes wondered whether Amy, my soft-coated wheaten terrier, misunderstood me on purpose, just to wind me up. We were walking north along Highway 101 sandwiched between the great Oregon sand dunes to our left and Woahink Lake to our right. I was trying to explain to my occasionally-faithful travelling companion that we needed to make a New Year Resolution to send regular reports of our epic virtual dog-walk to the News From Nowhere Blog. ......... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Fat Dog in 2011

From the 1st January 2011, updates to the Fat Dog To The Big Apple Blog will be added via the News From Nowhere Blog. The dedicated Fat Dog will remain open in order to preserve continuity and links to the new posts will appear here. If you would like to ensure you see new episodes of Fat Dog, you will need to become a follower of News From Nowhere.

About Fat Dog

Fat Dog to the Big Apple is, in part, an exercise in virtual reality and, in part, a pleasant but meaningless diversion. Bored with walking his slightly overweight Wheaten Terrier, Amy, around the same grey streets of West Yorkshire, even more overweight writer and blogger, Alan Burnett, decided to let his mind wander where his feet could not. The two therefore embarked - with the help of pedometers, interactive maps and all the information resources of the limitless World Wide Web - on a virtual reality journey from Los Angeles to New York.

Their daily walks on the streets around their home town of Huddersfield in the UK are plotted on a map and the Web allows them to sample all the sights and sounds of the real-time traveller. But, how rich is the web's information resource? Can this web-based resource support the virtual travellers on their entire epic journey or will the intrepid pair eventually wander into an information black hole? These are some of the questions the project is designed to address.