EditorialYear

The internet experience at Whitey’s Pub has reached the one year
milestone, and we thought it fitting to address the “Whys” and
“Wherewegoings” at this point.

First up the “Why”, and that’s a big one. The world as we know it
undoubtedly has enough websites, much like talk shows and
infomercials. Our thinking was, “what the hell, one more won’t ruin
the soup, and besides we’ve found a way to do this 100% and
completely free courtesy of the good people at Yahoo.com”. If it’s
free, it’s me. The “Whys” gathered momentum.

Then there was the time thing, or more notably, the 'way too much
time on our hands thing'. We could either be hanging out on street
corners late at night getting into trouble, or sitting in front of the work
pc and hammer out a website. We chose the latter, and since then
have not been arrested or incarcerated, not even once.

Even if the ample time needed was available and the price right, what
would this website consist of? Why would we think that anyone would
give a damn about what we litter the Net with? How arrogant (we are
Americans though)?! All good questions again, which leads us to the
Whitey’s Pub philosophy.

The site began with the simple intent of keeping family members
and close friends of Whitey’s Pub abreast of the basics. Photos of
kids and events, a place to store notable emails going around,
plans for future events, etc. We were able to reach this goal rather
easily and enjoyably, and decided to expand the coverage into other
areas of interest. We showed our true colors with football and baseball
sections specializing in the New York Jets and Mets. We offer a
pretty well organized Horse Racing page with weekly updates on
key columnists, track openings, links, and “horses to watch”.

The website then took on a new philosophy in an effort to create dialog
with our viewers. A few angles we took were to create different
“Favorites of the Pub” lists, and the well received
“Bracketology” section. In both cases, the intent was never to
boast of what we think is important, but rather entice communication
between the Pub and our friends or even complete strangers.

Whitey’s Pub feels that one of the very joys of life is to debate both the
important and the trivial with purpose and passion. The internet has
given us the ability to do just this with anyone and everyone from all
walks of life, and from all corners of the world.

That’s the “Why”.

Plans for the next year of operations at the Pub are geared at getting
YOU involved. We will continue to look for more columnists to add
their insights, we will continue to highlight regulars of the pub with
their very own Spotlights, and we will continue to keep the lines of
communication open with our letters to the editor, and other
viewpoints found in the Pub Archives. The best way we know to
keep the interest, is to get those viewing the site to contributing to it.

We will also continue to scour the internet for interesting websites and
provide a new and improved links page in the near future (see left). If
we could get Pub proprietor Whitey to jot down some of the
conversations overheard at the bar, we'd fire up the "Ask the Tenda"
page immediately. We're still working on that one, and the Stoagie
and Beer Review section of the site. Tis' not a perfect world we have
created, nor do we spend an absurd amount of time with the site. We
have not reached the compulsive or addictive stage of web building.
We have actually gotten this thing down to a science.

We'd appreciate the nearly 2000 "hits" laid on us during our initial
season by everyone, including but not solely attributed to our family,
friends at Tweed Farms, Eatontowners, the South Jersey connection
(spearheaded by Chipper), and other contributors.

See you all at the Pub, I'll buy the first round.

Whitey
April 2003