Comments on: How Well Do You Know Your Bloggers?

By: mr. c.

mr. c. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:45:35 +0000

Traffic from the Sidepodcasters! You thought the “Hobbson Bump” was big, George? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…

oh no, the pressure!

By: The Speedgeek

The Speedgeek — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:15:35 +0000

Traffic from the Sidepodcasters! You thought the “Hobbson Bump” was big, George? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…

By: Pat W

Pat W — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:52:16 +0000

I just realised I didn’t make sense in my comment.
I mean to say, in ‘real life’ I’m quite quiet and sometimes don’t get my point across, whereas I can (usually!) do that with a blog. So in that respect I’m pretending to be more than I am. But that’s completely different to what you described in the original post.

By: Pat W

Pat W — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:49:05 +0000

I love this post. There are a lot of people online pretending to be something they aren’t. Sometimes that’s a good thing as you can be who you aspire to be whilst remaining true to yourself. I like to think this is the model most racing bloggers use. At least the good ones.
Often, unfortunately, there are those who are downright lying. I’ve not seen a case as bad as your example (unless you count the GMM ‘news’ service – avoid).

By: mr. c.

mr. c. — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:47:39 +0000

fantastic post, sir. although i don’t religiously follow indycar bloggers (and pat w pointed me to this post), i can say that you’d find the same thing in f1 blogging circles.

if nothing else, the community is so small, you’d get busted pretty quickly.

one major pet peeve i have with the occasionally blogger that you haven’t touched upon, but that seems to be happening more and more, are those who seem to think of themselves as some kind of massive media organisation and drop phrases like “we’re working on this”, or “when we reported that”.

you know very well that it’s just another single guy or girl, working alone, spending far too much time in front of the screen and not getting the right amount of exercise or eating properly. there is no army or editors pounding the streets sniffing out leads.

anyhow, apologies for the minor rant. trust is everything and i love the indycar scene a little more because of this post. cheers.

By: The Speedgeek

The Speedgeek — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:21:50 +0000

Hey, buddy, you ought to be envious. That little girl sleeps pretty much non-stop from 11:00 until 5:00. You couldn’t ask for any better at 3 weeks old. Oh, and Mrs. Speedgeek is on midnight duty in the case that the little one wakes up, due to the fact that she’s on maternity leave right now and I’m back at work. And by “work”, I also mean the CIA, where I work three cubicles down from Hobbson. You should know that he brings in the nastiest stuff imaginable for lunch. Usually it’s Khal-Khalash and crab juice.

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:29:38 +0000

His name is Robert Paulson
His name is Robert Paulson
His name is Robert Paulson…

By: JamesO

JamesO — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:09:58 +0000

You’ll have to trust me when I tell you that my current life doing a bad Bob Cratchett imitation is really deep cover because I’m a mafia hitman. You know that line about those holes being dug in the desert from the movie CASINO? Me.

I chose #3 on the poll. On the one hand, since I don’t know any of you people personally and probably never will, it doesn’t really matter whether you use the internet to indulge your inner Walter Mitty. But even though a lot of blogging is commentary and analysis, not news, finding out someone’s lying destroys his credibility across the board; if you’re lying about This, how do I know you aren’t lying about That? At least when I go to a bookstore, the words A NOVEL are usually on the covers of fiction books.

Oops. Gotta go. The Veyron is back from the shop and I have a hot date. You don’t keep Giada De Laurentiis waiting.

By: Mars

Mars — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:58:30 +0000

I also have a blog that expresses various passions regarding “open-wheel racing”, and other things that kids 18-21 are interested in. “Fast, Fun, Easy and More” is what kids want, and they can get it when they want on the streets of America and on the SPEED channel. IMHO

Soon it will be 5 years that my 18 year old daughter was killed in Orlando, marker 27, Beach-line, right near where they just had the Karting Expo in Orange County, Fl. You can be sure that I will be watching the St. Petersburgh Grand Prix 2010 and hoping to hear the PSA’s for the new Izod crowd. I luv the new sports apparel and RHR and GR, BTW, because my daughter would have also! RHR is the new face of American Sports and I love the original commercial. it was almost a tribute to my daughter, who was an athlete in Soccer and Diving. “Everything’s gonna be alright…….”

Living on the beachside of Disney and on the Space-coast (soon to be the “Race -coast” when the Shuttle is shut down completely,) I have become an advid follower of Indy racing.

Thank you George for sharing your thoughts and deep passion for this American pass-time.

By: My Name Is IRL

My Name Is IRL — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:55:29 +0000

Sorry for all the pretentious skullduggery, George, but I’m actually Paul Hospenthal.