Backseat Driver: A Blogger's Apologia

A few weeks ago, my employer, projoCARS.com. which is the auto Web site of The Providence Journal, decided to run my ugly mug on the cover of the projoCARS section. This is apparently an inducement to get people to read my blogs, which are a combination of articles I have found while trolling at various Web sites and which I think are interesting and small comments - like this one - under the cover of Backseat Driver.
This move put the onus on me to ratchet up my blog. I had started writing it about a month ago and at first it was pretty much of an afterthought. I started devoting more time to it, and hopefully more people have started to read it.
But sometimes I feel I let my readers down. This past week, for example, I have been filling in for my editor and so have been preoccupied in putting the projoCARS section out - leaving little time to devote to my blog. Other times, I am out reporting all morning and so get to the blog late.
So this explains why my blog varies in range and depth. Don't expect that to change - it's the nature of the beast, given that I wear a number of hats around here.
And I have another confession to make. I am a nitwit because I have only just discovered how to read your comments and how to respond to them. I am now going through them and answering each one. It will take a bit of time and I will certainly respond to any new ones when they come in.
In the meantime, keep blogging me, even if you want to be rude! It's all part of the dialogue.
Cheers

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Who uses full-service gas stations?

Most of us are so used to pumping our own gas, we can barely remember the days of the loyal attendant who not only pumped gas but cleaned the windscreen and checked the oil. But full-service stations are still around and we went out to talk to the folks getting full service and the folks doing the pumping. Read about it in Peter C.T. Elsworth's story early next month, either online at projo.com/projocars or in the projoCars section of The Providence Journal.

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