Its too easy to sit in your own cave and let the world go by, eh? said Ray Sutton, the 73-year-old Oldest Living Blogger and a retired electrician who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. It keeps the old head working a little bit so you are not just sitting there gawking at TV.

Forget shuffleboard, needlepoint, and bingo. Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-age pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.
Theres Dads Tomato Garden Journal, Dogwalk Musings, and, of course, the Oldest Living Blogger.

Web logs, or blogs, are online journals where people write about anything and everything that interests them. Blogs tend to be topical, and typically offer links to other Web sites, photos and opportunities for readers to comment.

Bloggers say their hobby keeps them up on current events, lets them befriend strangers around the globe and gives them a voice in a society often deaf to the wisdom of the elderly.

Apart from the pleasure and interest that Blogs provide for the elderly some have gone on to realise the business potential in what they are doing, Good on them I say.

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