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Olive Riley, the worlds oldest blogger, died over the weekend.

“It was mind blowing to her,” news.com.au has her great grandson Darren Stone, declaring.

“She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia,” and, “on a continual basis, not just once in a while.”

And indeed, “An Australian woman, known as the world’s oldest Internet blogger, has died at the age of 108,” reports Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

“Since February last year, Riley has posted more than 70 entries on her Life of Riley blog, which she jokingly called her ‘blob,’ sharing her thoughts about life through the entire 20th century. She also posted clips of her singing and talking on YouTube.”

In her final post on June 26, “an increasingly frail Olive noted she couldn’t “shake off that bad cough,” says news.com.au.

She would have turned 109 on October 20.

Her funeral will be held at Palmdale Cemetery, on the NSW Central Coast, late this week.

Click here for some of Olive’s YouTube ‘vlobs’

Here she is singing Waltzing Matilda

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news.com.au – World’s ‘oldest blogger’ makes final post, July 14, 2008
RIA Novosti – World’s oldest blogger dies at 108 in Australian nursing home, July 14, 2008

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