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Dennis Ennis admits he's an unlikely blogger. "When my wife and I first got our computer, I couldn't stop it from crashing," he says. Dennis, 53, may never be a hardware wiz, but he's a two-year blogging vet, creating and writing blueridgegazette.blogspot.com, a site focusing on the Virginia mountains where he lives.

For the uninitiated, a blog, or weblog, is an online journal where writers discuss any subject imaginable, from the weighty (global warming) to the trivial (pork rinds). Most blogs also allow readers to post comments. Dennis got started writing about the Blue Ridge region when a series of illnesses forced him to go on disability. "The blog has given me a voice," he says. "I hear from people from every walk of life—from university professors to people who pick up the garbage."

Only 5 percent of bloggers are over 50, according to a recent study, but most Web experts believe that number will grow. Blogster.com, a site where users create their own Web pages, says 22 percent of its bloggers are now older than 50, a 20 percent increase since October 2005.

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"I'm convinced you'll see more older people take up blogging," says Ronni Bennett, 65, a former 20/20 producer in New York City who launched timegoesby.net, a blog on aging. "When you quit working, your social group shrinks. Blogs enable people with similar interests to develop a new social group. They also keep your critical abilities sharp because you're reading, writing, and thinking."

Jeralyn Merritt, a Denver criminal-defense attorney and an MSNBC talking head, says her blog, talkleft.com—where she discusses everything from Iraq to Social Security—gets more attention (almost twenty thousand unique visitors a day) than her TV spots. "A TV segment runs once and it's gone," says Jeralyn, 56. "A blog is there forever, so people continue to read the posts and let you know how you've affected them."

That feedback from readers, says blogger Mari Meehan, 65, is "a real ego trip." A former public relations exec from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Mari started dogwalkmusings.blogspot.com as an outlet for the many thoughts that struck her while walking her Saint Bernard. She now creates posts just three days a week to make time for other interests: "I have to purposefully avoid the computer because blogging is so addictive."

Ready to share your prose with the world? Sites such as blogspot.com and blogster.com offer free templates, so even people with minimal tech savvy can set up a blog. And if you'd like to do some additional site-seeing, check out these three great blogs by 50-plus writers:

octogenarian.blogspot.com Ex-journalist Mort Reichek, 81, discusses his World War II experiences and thoughts on global politics.

jenett.org/ageless Okay, it isn't technically a blog site, but it has links to an array of blogs created by people 50 and older.

helpmebubby.blogspot.com Created by 90-year-old novice Lillian Tashlik, this Dear Abby of the blogosphere dispenses advice to love-struck teens.