Blogs for all ages

The New York Times today has a story on older bloggers enriching their lives by starting blogs and engaging with people online.

Prominently featured is Ronni Bennett's Time Goes By, one of the very first sites we ever featured on our TypePad featured sites list. Ronni's lived an amazing life, which she talks about in detail on her site. But almost as interesting is the TypeList of Elderbloggers on her sidebar which lists dozens of blogs written by people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, or older. It's a great way to discover blogs by those who are experienced enough to really have a story to tell. This is perhaps best summed up in the Times story:

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.

(Thanks to Doug Bowman for the link.)