Blogging Isn’t Just for the Young
posted by Daniel Solove
This AP article, available at CNN, chronicles older individuals who are blogging:
Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens. . . .
Three percent of online U.S. seniors have created a blog and 17 percent have read someone else’s blog, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Compare that to online 18- to 29-year-olds: Thirteen percent have created blogs and 32 percent have read someone else’s blog, according to Pew.
Joe Jenett, a Detroit-area Web designer who has been tracking the age of bloggers for a personal venture called the Ageless Project, said he has noticed more older bloggers in the past two years.
The title of the article is “Senior Citizen Bloggers Defy Stereotypes” but the article’s URL at CNN is . . . well . . . not as kindly worded:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/10/geezers.who.blog.ap/index.html
November 10, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Posted in: Blogging, Humor
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