[WEB4LIB] "Senior" blogs

Jon Legree jon at ylpl.lib.ca.us
Mon Jan 24 22:06:49 EST 2005



We've added a "senior" section to our web site -
http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/sr (not much activity right now). We include a
list of sites for seniors created by an lii.org search. The list is created
by a script which searches lii.org and returns the results as RSS. The URL
for the script is http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/cgi-bin/liisearch.cgi. It's a
nice way to generate a list of high quality links on any subject.

The URL for the "sites for seniors" feed is:
http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/cgi-bin/lii2rss.cgi?query=seniors+not+graduation&s
earchtype=keywords&no_stem=1&v=0.92

Moreover has a "Senior News" RSS feed  -
http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?index_seniors+rss but it includes
advertisements if you're not a subscriber.


Jon Legree
Library Technology Specialist
Yorba Linda Public Library
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
714.777.2873.119
mailto:jon at ylpl.lib.ca.us
http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us


-----Original Message-----
From: K.G. Schneider [mailto:kgs at bluehighways.com]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:27 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] "Senior" blogs


A journalist, Gabriel Goldberg, gabe at gabegold.com is writing a piece on
blogs by "seniors." He asks, "Any suggestions or pointers on blogs by/for
seniors? Any good search tools focused on seniors?"

I can give him some help with the search tools end of things, including
terminology, but what he could probably use is some good first-hand examples
of blogs for and/or by older people --> and of course that made me think
some librarians have probably participated in or created blogs for older
people or on related topics. Jon Legree, I am really hoping you're reading
this and talk about your custom RSS feed!

Anyway, show 'em if you got 'em--

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at lii.org


Jon Legree
Library Technology Specialist
Yorba Linda Public Library
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
714.777.2873.119
mailto:jon at ylpl.lib.ca.us
http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us




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