Fat Dog To The Big Apple

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Week 58 : Postcard From Coos Bay - North Bend

Week 57 : Postcard From Bandon

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Sunday, 13 December 2009

29 November 2009 : Postcard From Cape Blanco

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Sunday, 29 November 2009

21 November 2009 : Postcard From Port Orford

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Sunday, 22 November 2009

19 November 2009 : Postcard From Humbug Mountain

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Sunday, 15 November 2009

12 November 2009 : Postcard From Gold Beach

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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

5 November 2009 : Postcard From Whaleshead

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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.