After almost three years of running Sag Hampton on the Blogware platfrom, I felt it was time to move on to something a bit more flexible and with a brighter future. Blogware has not been updated in some time, and appears as if it may be a dead end in terms of features. WordPress, on [...]
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What Is a Blog and Does Sag Hampton Need One?
If you’re reading this online, you most likely already know what a blog is, and probably think this blog is a worthwhile undertaking. However, for my online-only readers I should explain that occasionally The Sag Harbor Express picks up a blog post from here and publishes it as an opinion piece in the print-edition of the paper. Many readers of The Express think of me as an occasional columnist for the paper, and are only marginally aware, if aware at all, that what they read in the paper has a separate life online. This post is for them. …
Blog Action Day, Oct. 15
Do you have a blog? If so, you may want to join the blog action day campaign, which will take place on October 15th. This year’s theme is poverty. (Last year’s was the environment.) The idea is to focus the conversation in as many blogs, video blogs and podcasts as possible on that day on the subject of poverty. So, for example, I’ll be writing a post about some aspect of poverty as it relates to Sag Hampton. The Blog Action Day organizers explain their motivation thusly:
Blog Problems
For the past few months we’ve been having some problems with our blog hosting company, which seems to be gradually going out of business. Today, with much help from our new blog host Blogharbor.com (nice coincidence, that!) we’re up and running again, so if you’ve been trying to visit Saghampton.com and were consistently getting error messages about “exceeded bandwidth,” rest …
Our First Year: Taking Stock
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 …
Working Both Sides of the Street
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* …
Now Find Us at saghampton.com
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.
Sag Hampton Is a Social Network
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 …
The Blog Ate My Homework
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 [...]
Yay! We Have a Logo
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 [...]
