http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:01:43 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/29/135336.php#comment-642690 Admittedly, I'm a writer so my immediate social circle contains computer-savvy "elderly" people, so I would not be surprised at finding the not-so-young pounding away at their keyboard and morphing into late-bloomin' bloggers. Blogs are a great way to preserve attitudes and opinons, memories and perspectives. And, as we all know, age makes a person more certain of their opinons so having a blog is probably a good way to release some inner tension when today's world careens toward an uncertain future. My dad is in his 90s. Had blogging erupted in an earlier decade he would have easily slipped into the mode. But today his emphysema drains his eneregy and his aging swallows his memories. A former NASA engineer, he would have loved this bright new world. His father, a lifelong local historian and weekly columnist for the local paper, would surely evolved into another of the new media's historians and taken advantage of this publishing avenue. The young may not retain their hold on the Internet as the aging process continues. :) 642690@blogcritics.org Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:01:43 EDT