on Apr 11th, 2006Elderbloggers Only 0.3% of All Blogs
When the Gold Rush was at its peak, I suspect most of those who made their way West were young and ambitious. The whole notion of packing up all your belongings and moving to the gold mining areas would not be easy for someone older and more established. Yet for those who managed to stake their claim, the payoff could be sweet indeed.
The New York Times has finally gotten around to noticing that the blogging gold rush, although dominated by younger voices, has a few elder voices as well. If you’re tired of listening to your friends medical problems, why not start a blog and have a conversation with the world about what’s on your mind. If you can type, you can blog. It’s that simple. Stop your kvetching and join the word rush.
With a breadth of experience and perspective, older bloggers are staking out a place in the blogosphere — a medium overwhelmingly dominated by the young. Perhaps more attentive to grammar and less likely to use cutesy cyberspeak, older bloggers expound on topics as varied as poetry and politics, gardening and grandmothering.
According to a recent report by the Perseus Development Corporation, a research company that studies online trends, the Internet is home to approximately 54.3 million blogs, nearly 60 percent written by people younger than 19. Just 0.3 percent of blogs are run by people 50 or older, yet that’s still about 160,000 bloggers.
Elderbloggers Stake Their Claim
By LEE ROBERTS
New York Times, April 11, 2006
Elderbloggers noted in the article: