The blogging community has lost a long standing soldier. She was a 108-year-old Australian woman named Olive Riley, popularly hailed as the world's "oldest blogger". It is reported that she passed away peacefully last Saturday July 12th ’08. She made her last and final post on June 26th ’08. Her death has got due coverage from all quarters including a full page article on BBC News.
Olive came from Australia and was born in 1899 (whoa, this really is a long time back). If you’d come to think of it, you’d realize that she might be among the very few who’d have witnessed the two world wars. What’s even more surprising is that she blogged at an age when people can’t even think rationally, let alone write. She published two blogs, viz. www.allaboutolive.com.au and http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com. In a statement made by her great grandson Darren Stone, he said that the blog was "mind-blowing to her".
She will be mourned by several hundred internet fans apart from her relations.
awwww..but was she the 1st one to write a blog or just the oldest in age to die??
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