July 22, 2008
the world’s oldest blogger dies at 108
Olive Riley, a 108 year old Australian woman, also known as the world’s oldest blogger, passed away two weeks after making her last post.
“It was mind blowing to her,” Stone said. “She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while.”
Born in the remote mining town of Broken Hill in 1899, Riley blogged regularly in the last year of her life about growing up in the Outback, raising three children and working as a farm cook and bartender earlier in her life.
Her blogs can be found at allaboutolive and worldsoldestblogger.
(thanks, David)
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I wonder how many of us have anything of value to say on our blogs. By that, I mean this: this woman lived an extraordinary and long life, and it was filled with real life experiences which were strange, to her, and to us. She had something to say, precisely because she was not around for most of the Internet. How many bloggers now have “grown up” on the internet, and while we are “generating content”, er, excuse me, living, is it anything worth thinking back on?
I’ll put something of value on my blog when I’m damn well good and ready.
I think we’re ready to start thinking about something like that here.
I wonder if anyone made love to that woman.
I wonder if we can find Enid Crackel–see if she would be willing to pass on tales of having to take a hammer to somebody from her wheelchair at the home.