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I find it like impossible to "educate" my mum to even click on the ads that are placed around my blog, let alone teach her how to start a blog of her own.

Yes, most of the "older generation" (not specifically referring to age) just can't "get" the whole blogging thingy going on, so it's hard to imagine how Olive Riley could have managed it.

Sadly, this was the end of Olive Riley's blogging "career". Named the world's oldest blogger, she died on Saturday, July 12, 2008, in Australia, at the age of 108.

Olive Riley, born on October 20, 1899 at Broken Hill, Australia, was the owner of the blog "The Life Of Riley", which has more recently become "World's Oldest Blogger".

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The blog had more than 70 postings about her life in Woy Woy, Southeast Australia.

The blog charts her life from her early days in Broken Hill, an isolated outback town, all the way up to her short time in a nursing home.

108-year-old's last post was from her nursing home...

Her last posting:

^{Thursday, June 26, 2008}
SETTLING IN
This is a temporary blog created for my friend OLIVE RILEY, of Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia, aged 108, the world's oldest blogger. Her main blog, The Life of Riley, is posted at http://www.allaboutolive.com.au/

OLIVE RILEY'S 74th POST

Which came with a "happy song"...

Penny, who's in the next bed to mine, had a visit one day this week from her daughter, who's a professional singer. Guess what happened! She and I sang a happy song, as I do every day, and before long we were joined by several nurses, who sang along too. It was quite a concert!

Right after that, the next post came as a shock...

^{Thursday, July 10, 2008}
OLIVE SERIOUSLY ILL
Eric says:

I'm sorry to report that Olive is seriously ill. She sleeps most of the time, so I was unable to read your messages to her when Mike and I visited her this morning (Friday, July 11).

2 days later...

^{Saturday, July 12, 2008}
R.I.P. OLIVE RILEY
Oue dear friend Olive Riley passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 12. She will be mourned by thousands of Internet friends and hundreds of descendants and other relatives.

Notifying all of her death.

According to TechRadar UK,

Olive's blog wasn't her only foray into media. Filmmaker Mike Rubbo also made a documentary about her life. It was during this time that Olive was prompted to make her blog.

If you're interested, you can listen to Mike's BBC4 broadcast - here!