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World’s oldest blogger dies in Australia
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-grandson and her online forum said.
Olive Riley wrote 74 entries in her blogs, firstly http://www.allaboutolive.com.au and later http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com. A friend introduced Riley to blogging early in 2007, and she was hooked.
Riley “passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 12,” a posting on her Web site said. No cause of death was given. “She will be mourned by thousands of Internet friends and hundreds of descendants and other relatives.”
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.
— The Associated Press
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