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August 5, 2005Bless you BryceWhen you begin to blog, you hope that someone will read your work and find it enjoyable. When I began this blog, I made a few modest postings on Web forums that I have regularly contributed to. In the first week the blog got some traffic and a few nice comments. Friends and family generally will give you some forms of support and claim to read your stuff everyday. But you always hope that new readers will find your stuff in the clutter that is the onslaught of information that streams like a fire hose to Internet. I am proud to say that at least one reader has found my blog in the mire of the Web and responds to what I write on a regular basis. Bless you Bryce. Bryce, you are a mystery to me. I do not know who you are, where you are from or what your taste in cars is. Not that I want to tailor my blog to an audience of one, but if there is a particular topic you would like to read about let me know and I will whip something up. And that goes for all the rest of you who claim to read my blog. I know you are out there. I am not above writing vanity articles about you and your favorite car. Drop me a comment or write directly to Scott@Harris.net with the details of your automotive obsession and I guarantee that you will be profiled on this blog. Writing a blog is fun and a challenge at the same time. I devote entire moments of my busy day thinking up topics for this use of bandwidth. I usually start with a phrase or sentence and try to develop an entire piece from that shred. This article came from the joy of discovering that Bryce had responded once again. If any of the others out there responds to this piece, I can squeeze another couple of stories out. I am not proud, toss a drowning man a lifeline and I will be eternally grateful. I try to come up with an original entry everyday, the hope is that readers will enjoy their daily fix and encourage others to come join the fun. Maybe the readers would click on a few of the links on the right side of the page so that we generate a bit of revenue for the cause. Hope springs eternal. Posted by Scott at August 5, 2005 9:11 AM CommentsScott, I would love to hear your take on the new Mustang. It seems like Ford has gone back to its roots with this one. I took the convertible for a test drive. The engine performed and sounded beautiful (well-tuned). I could feel the road the way you should on a muscle car. Unfortunately, the interior is typical Ford. You've rebuilt Mustangs. What do you think? Posted by: Buck at August 5, 2005 11:18 AM It's a good blog. I think I discovered it from the forum at Grassroots Motorsports. I'm not exactly sure how I found it, but it was somewhere like that. I don't really blog, because I'm not sure what to write about cars these days. I'm a product design student, so I suppose an automotive design analysis blog would be fun, but....that isn't easy to do. I already write for a scooter magazine, and I probably shouldn't give that action away for free. Posted by: Bryce at August 6, 2005 11:20 AM Yo, Scott! I think that I am another one of your faithful readers. This site is always a welcome stop on my rounds of net-surfing. You always have interesting stuff to say, and it is always worth reading. I usually check every day--though I have an advantage over some people, because I have a lot more free time than those who are currently employed... I try not to say anything when I don't have anything factual to say, but today it looks like you could use a little encouragement. A few words that there really are people out here. I think I know what you're going through, with this blog. I was a radio DJ at my dinky little college station, and it was always a nice surprise when someone actually called in during my show. Most feedback is enjoyable, even when someone tells you what they don't like about your show. Don't get discouraged--but make sure you're doing this because you really love it. The process of coming up with topics, and with writing, and so on, should be enjoyable for its own sake--or it will become another job or chore. And that's not the kind of thing you need, I don't think. I've had ideas sparked by entries from your blog. Something got me thinking about Charles Kettering, and what a truly inventive person he was. The Kettering ignition, of course, is his invention--points and condensor and coil and all of that. I think he also came up with the first practical electric self-starter for auto engines. He came up with a number of other stuff, as well. For the "car clubs" article, it came to me much later that the SCCA is more in line with what I know of you. Most of the members are on the older side (despite the successful efforts recently to reach out to younger members), and they are interested in pushing cars to their limits--or the driver's limits, more often. You can do worse than hang out with a buncha crazy autocrossers for a day or two. Anyway, I have to run. The GF wants to go shopping, so off I go!! --DD Posted by: Dave Darling at August 6, 2005 12:03 PM Mike 18 cute russian boy http://www.mike-18.int.tf/ Posted by: Mike 18 at June 6, 2006 1:09 PM Post a comment |
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