Month: October 2011

Chicago Tea Party Patriots Meeting, Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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This next meeting should be good:

The next monthly meeting of the Chicago Tea Party will be held on Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 at Blackie’s Chicago, 755 S. Clark. Our featured speaker will be Dan Proft, WLS-AM 890 host, Senior Fellow at the Illinois Policy Institute and Illinois Chapter President of Operation Homefront, a non-profit that provides emergency assistance to Illinois military families. This will be our first meeting after TeaCon 2011, the tea party convention that engaged, educated and energized tea party leaders from across the Midwest.

Register here.

I plan to be there.

(Here is Dan Proft’s speech to the Tea Party gathering on Daley Plaza, April 19, 2011. I was there. It was cold. Proft was good, and also funny.)

Blogging Is for Old People

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Is this true? Do younger people now mostly use Facebook, Twitter, phone P2P apps etc?

Chicagoboyz seems middle-aged; the median age of contributors and commenters here appears to be fifty-something. (Perhaps the age distribution of readers who don’t comment, which is most readers, skews older or younger, but it’s difficult to know.)

Why is that? This blog has been around for about ten years. That’s a significant chunk of time in anyone’s life. There has been turnover among contributors but those of us who have been here since the beginning are now ten years older. Maybe blogs, or at least blogs that are both 1) around for a while and 2) don’t expand into large enterprises age with their contributors. Blogs, including group blogs, are personal and it’s plausible that the people who read a blog tend to have something in common with the writers. Maybe there’s a cohort of readers aging with the writers, or maybe writers as they age tend to attract older readers. My guess is that it’s a combination, mostly the latter.

So, is blogging the new TV news, something that mainly older people engage in as either writers or readers? Are older people more likely to blog and comment on blogs because they have free time? Or is reader/writer age an irrelevant variable?

Feel free to discuss in the comments.

BTW, here’s a poll:

How old are Chicago Boyz readers? Please tell us your age (anonymously)…
Age 20 or under
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
71 or older
  
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