It's hard to believe, but I've been writing this blog for a year now. The first post was published on Saturday, May 20, 2006. Since then I've published 82 articles and received 101 reader comments. As near as I can tell, on average, about 15 people a day stop by. Some days, usually after an article has been republished in ...   more »

In one of those ironic twists of fate, I noticed today that one of the renovated houses I was critical of in an earlier post is now appearing for sale in an ad on my blog. 168 Main Street appears frequently in rotation with other Google ads in the right hand column of this blog. Google places these ads - with my permission* ...   more »

To make it a little easier to remember and share Sag Hampton's web address with friends and acquaintances we've added saghampton.com and www.saghampton.com to our original address, saghampton.eponym.com. You can now get here using any one of those addresses. They'll all work just fine.   more »

Blogs are interactive media. TV is the polar opposite: a passive medium. Even traditional websites are passive media. Here's the difference. Passive media are one-way conversations. There's a creator and a consumer. The creator creates, the consumer consumes what has been created. If you're having trouble following this, substitute either the word "reads"  or "watches" for the word "consumes" in ...   more »

Yikes!  If you stopped by to read today's post titled Distressing, you were probably distressed to find that except for a brief lead-in, there was no post to read. I honestly don't know how that happened. Let's just say the ghost in the computer was having a little fun at my expense. I had actually written quite a lengthy post to go with the title and lead-in, but suddenly it was gone....

So, in a few minutes I'm going to try to recreate what I had written, and then repost it. Well see what happens.

9/12/06 - Update: OK, it's done. You can click here to read the re-created post.

Thanks to Corinne Cohen we have now have an official Sag Hampton logo gracing the top of the blog. Corinne used an image of a Bowhead whale -- which was one of the types of whales hunted by Sag Harbor's historic whaling fleet -- over a stately column of trees to reflect the two main cross-pollinating facets of this blog, Sag Harbor and the Hamptons. A version of this image is also available to anyone who would like to use it to create a link to this blog. If you're interested, just drop me a line at ecohen49 at hotmail dot com.

Corinne Cohen is a website designer and jewelry maker originally from Sag Harbor, but now living and working in New York City. You can see samples of her web work at http://www.houseofingri.com and http://www.oliadesigns.com (Corinne designed the website but not the jewelry). If you're interested in having Corinne do some design work for your website or blog, you can contact her by sending an e-mail to me at ecohen49 at hotmail dot com. I'll pass on your request to her.

Just a note to say that there will probably be no new posts until at least July 13th, (OK, so it was actually until July23rd, who's counting?) as I will be on vacation 'til then. I didn't want you to think I was abandoning the blog.

Please feel free to add comments while I'm away. I love to hear what you have to say about Sag Hampton (the blog and the region).

Thanks for reading; see you soon.

Eric

P.S. There will be a small but interesting announcement when I get back.