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 »

Breaking news in this week's Southampton Press indicates that the Bridgehampton School district's longtime resistance to considering a merger with a larger district may be lessening. This is big indeed if you live in Bridgehampton; maybe less so if you live in one of the districts with which Bridgehampton might combine. Even Sag Harbor, which itself is a small district, ...   more »

Please excuse the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks. Last weekend my family went to a wedding in Dahlonega (pronounced like harmonica, with the accent on the second syllable), Georgia. Prior to that we were caught up in preparations for the trip, and after getting back there was recovery time, catching up on things we didn't get to do because of the trip, etc. Anyway, I didn't write for a while, and let myself get out of the habit of writing. Time went by. So, today I decided I had to force myself to start writing again. This is the result...   more »

I love fall. If there's anything better than being outside on a sunny, crisp fall day, I can't think what it would be. Happily, we had our first real fall days this past weekend, just in time for the sidewalk sale in Sag Harbor, a new tradition that I am already very fond of. Actually, memory may fail me here. ...   more »

There's a curious quote in this week's issue of the Sag Harbor Express. Following up on a story from the previous week, Editor Bryan Boyhan looks a bit more deeply at the relatively large number of Sag Harbor School District students that choose to attend area private schools, particularly the Ross School in East Hampton. Looking for the reasons behind this exodus from public education   more »