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SeniorJournal.com Honored with GRAYPOW Award
By Tucker
Sutherland, editor
Sept. 6, 02 - One of the worlds
senior Web authors and surfers, Eric Shackle, 83, has awarded SeniorJournal.com his GRAYPOW Award, which recognizes Websites for
senior citizens that he considers outstanding.
Shackle is a retired Australian
journalist whose hobby is searching the Internet and writing about it.
His work has been published by the New York Times, Globe and Mail
(Canada), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Straits Times
(Singapore). He is copy editor of Anu Garg's Seattle-based A Word A Day
free newsletter, which is e-mailed five days a week to more than half
a million wordlovers in 210 countries.
 But
his greatest claim to fame maybe his e-book, Life Begins at 80
On
the Internet. It is billed as the worlds first multi-national
electronic book and it is free on the Internet.
http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle
We first heard from
Shackle last summer, when we received this greeting in an e-mail,
Greetings from Sydney, Australia. Today I found your interesting
website for the first time, and greatly enjoyed reading some of its
many pages. Great stuff!
In awarding the
GRAYPOW Award this month, he wrote It's a marvelous daily news
service for senior citizens. Apart from dozens of news stories, it
contains many pages covering a fascinating range of subjects.
In 2000, he teamed with a South African computer expert, Barry Downs,
who he met on the Internet. They combined talents to publish what they
believe is the world's first multi-national electronic book.
The e-book is actually a wide range of links to various articles
written by Shackle and published on Websites all over the world.
Sample subjects include:
the world's biggest turkey and largest hailstones, computer-generated
anagrams, mysterious lights in Texas and Queensland, 15 towns named
Rugby, Global English, and how to cultivate a herb said to ease
arthritic pains.
He has written newspaper articles for more than 62 years (one of his
earliest stories, published by a Brisbane newspaper when he was 18, is
included in the book). He was born in Chingford, England, a part of
Greater London.
He migrated Down Under in 1929 with his parents and younger sister,
who now lives in New Zealand. The steamship
Demosthenes took six weeks
to transport the family and their fellow migrants from London to
Sydney.
Eric began a long career in journalism and public relations as a
copyboy on the Christchurch (New Zealand) Press in 1935, and two years
later, aged 17, left the family home for Australia, where he has lived
ever since.
He served in the Australian Army in World War II, including 18 months
in New Guinea, then married a Queensland girl, Jerry, with whom he has
lived happily in or near Sydney for 55 years. They have four sons and
seven grand-children. Eric was British Petroleum's New South Wales
public relations officer in Sydney for 20 years. He retired at 65, and
now writes as a hobby about any subject that appeals to him, for a
global market.
U.S. wordsmith Anu Garg made him
honorary copy editor of his newsletter, A Word a Day, which is
e-mailed free to nearly 500,000 word-lovers around the world. The
prestigious U.S. magazine The Smithsonian recently called India-born Garg's newsletter "a globe-circling cyberphenomenon, one of the most
addictive free services available on the Web." More details can be
found at
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ |
