April Journeys (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
It’s been a while since I visited Maria Amelia’s blog (oldest blogger in Spain). Reading through her most recent posts, I learnt that the oldest blogger in the world, Olive Riley, has passed away last 12 July. I also saw a post which is a list of “If I were…” (Si yo fuera) and I’ve translated [...]
Trendsspotting (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
On July 14th, Olive Riley, the world’s oldest internet blogger from Australia died at the age of 108. Riley posted more than 70 entries on her blog or “blob” as she jokingly called it since February 2007. She recounted her life during two world wars, raising three kids, and working as a barmaid. She [...]
Suitable For Mixed Company (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
From Kim Komando's website comes word that Olive Riley of Australia, who didn't start blogging until she was well past 100, has died . Komando has a video clip from a documentary made about Riley in 2004.
The Greatest American Lawyer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
By Saeed Ahmed CNN "An Australian woman often described as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about her ailing health but how she sang "a happy song, as I do...
901am (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Several weeks ago I wrote about Randall Butisingh, one of the worlds’ oldest bloggers at 95 years old. At the time, I didn’t realize what a spring chicken Randall was. We now pay our respects to Olive Riley, born 1899. The 108-year-old Australian woman passed away over the weekend. From recounting life through two world [...]
Mars Hill (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Olive Riley, renowned as the World's Oldest Blogger, died just a few days ago aged 108. She started her blog last year, although she never actually typed it herself (given her poor eyesight), she would dictate. I just find it incredible that someone who left school in 1914 and who was older than my grandparents (all long since dead), was keeping a blog. You can read it here . The title of "World's...
Genealogy Reviews Online (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Just a short post with a brief update on the article. Earlier in the week I wrote about the death of Olive Riley - AKA the Worlds Oldest Blogger. At the time of that post, the URL to Olive's blog...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
“I guess I got a shot to get #1 now.” © Gotty™ Olive Riley, the world’s oldest blogger, died on July 12 at the age of 108. My grandparents were mere babes ’round about when Olive was my age, and the last computer they owned was an IBM with the black screen and green DOS lettering. The [...]
Debi Alper (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
How strange that I should have published this post about birth and death in the blogosphere just before the news came out that we have lost our oldest contributor. Olive Riley started blogging last year at the age of 107. (I mentioned her here back in Feb 07 when her first post was published.) She published 70 posts giving a unique insight into the perspective of a woman born in 1899. On one day in...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Olive Riley was living proof you can never be too old to learn a new technology. This Australian woman only started to blog in February 2007 but she managed more than 70 entries and shared her remarkable…
Clinical Cases and Images (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
From Official Google Australia Blog : "Olive Riley, who, at 108, was the "world's oldest blogger," passed away last Saturday at her nursing home in near Sydney, Australia. Olive posted many YouTube vlogs retelling tales of her youth and sharing songs that helped to convey her most fundamental belief: "I want to be happy, but I can't be happy 'til I make you happy too." Olive Riley, 108, was the "world's...
First Draft (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A 108-year-old blogging voice goes quiet: Olive Riley’s been keeping me young. Her example says; if a woman who left school in 1914, can embrace the internet in her 106th year, what is there you can’t do, friend? John McCain...
Chuck Newton (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
According to HuffPo and other sources, A 108-year-old Australian woman who was promoted as the world's oldest blogger has died two weeks after making her last post about "singing a happy song," her great-grand son and her online forum said. A friend introduced Olive Riley to blogging early in 2007, and was hooked. She "passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 12," a posting on her Web site said. No...
A Flyover Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The world's oldest blogger, Olive Riley, passed away early Saturday morning. Ollie wrote The Life of Riley, a fascinating personal journal about her personal experiences. I will miss Ollie; she made me smile. But she certainly lived life and I...
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The world's oldest blogger, Olive Riley, died this weekend in Australia. She was 108. Make that the world's former oldest blogger. The title now goes to Amelia Lopez , 95, of Spain. Lopez, as you will remember, is an enemy of Grant Miller Media . Although I share a common respect for every blogger, I was quietly relieved to learn of Riley's passing. It's part of my plan to rid the blogosphere of blogs...
