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Tuesday Apr 21 2009

Our blog posts are now featured in the seniors section of Alltop, an online magazine rack that brings together top news and information from across the internet. The Top Seniors News page aggregates news feeds from various sites and displays the five most recent items under each site's name. Just click on any link, and you'll be redirected to that item.[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: alltop news

Believing What We Read

Monday Jan 19 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

Here is what I was reading in the Buenos Aires Herald this morning (paraphrased)—“Some folks like what Obama’s doing, other folks aren’t so happy”. Here’s another—“Lots of middle class people believe there is a financial crisis and others don’t seem to have been affected at all”. This is then followed by a restatement of the news for the last few months with a dash of history added in, such as comparisons between BHO and JFK or FDR. Blah, blah, blah… I think that the malaise of the media has less to do with conservative or liberal bias than with[Read More]

Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment

Tagged with: facts free_press internet journalism news obama points_of_view worldview

Not So Different Online

Thursday Jul 24 2008

According to a new study released by the Center for the Digital Future and AARP, Americans 50+ are closing the digital divide with online behaviors similar to much younger users (those under 20). Older citizens not only use websites for information, but they also use social networking, gaming and news channels in ever-increasing numbers. Key findings of the study include:

News source. More than twice as many 50+ Americans than users under 20 check news online (42% compared to 18%)
Online communities. More older users log in daily or several times a day (58% vs. 47%). Forty-six percent of users under 50 and users over 70 use the internet to maintain their social relationships. Seventy percent of members 50+ and 58% of members under 20 reported their online communities were very or extremely important to them.
Social activism. More older users participate in online communities for social causes (36% vs 29%).
Games. Eighteen percent of users 50+ go online daily to play, compared to 22 percent of users under 50.
Shopping. All users indicated they sometimes or often view items in retail stores before buying online (68% for 50+, 72% for under 50).

You can download highlights of the report at the Centre for the Digital Future website.[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: activism communities games news shopping

Mindless Media

Wednesday Aug 08 2007

I am having a hard time finding anything good to say about the news media in North America these days. I hate to think this, but perhaps I am becoming a curmudgeon. For example, I was impressed by the rapid coverage of the tragedy in Minneapolis with the bridge collapse. Within minutes of the occurrence, CNN, NBC, FOX and CBC were ‘on it’. We had heard about all there was to hear within a few hours, and then we witnessed some pretty good coverage of the rescue efforts. But going into day six, we were still getting darn near round-the-clock replays of the scene, along with endlessly repetitive and inane fillers of reporters interviewing reporters and speculating on what may or may not be the cause of the collapse.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at News
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