Olive Riley | Oldest blogger, 108
Olive Riley, 108, an Australian woman who was promoted as the world's oldest blogger, has died.
Olive Riley, 108, an Australian woman who was promoted as the world's oldest blogger, has died.
Ms. Riley "passed away peacefully" Saturday, a posting on her Web site, the Life of Riley, said. No cause of death was given. She entered a nursing home in Woy Woy, 50 miles north of Sydney, last month, from where she blogged about having a bad cough and feeling weak.
She started making blog entries in 2007 and wrote 74 in total. In her last entry, on June 26, she thanked supporters for "a whole swag of e-mails and comments from my Internet friends" and described meeting a new friend in the bed next to her (see her blog via http://go.philly.com/liferiley).
Born in a remote mining town in 1899, Ms. Riley blogged regularly about growing up in the Outback, raising three children, and working as a farm cook and bartender earlier in her life. - AP