Did you hear about Maria Amelia Lopez the 95 year old blogger from Spain whose blog, A mis 95 años/95 years old blogger is getting lots of attention on the Web? NowPublic.com for example, calls the 95 year old blogger an International Hit, and several other online media outlets are reporting on her success as well. To read even more media coverage about Maria and her blog simply log onto the blog and click on English in the upper right hand column.
Becoming more popular by the day (well over a million visitors as of this writing) this blog of personal wisdom written in Spanish is proof that the blogging phenomenon knows no bounds-age, language, or otherwise!
When are you starting your blog?
Hi Aurelio. Greetings from Sydney, Australia.
ReplyDeleteMaria Amelia is Spain's oldest blogger, but Australia's Olive Riley,aged 108, who lives in an aged care hostel at Woy Woy,50 miles north of Sydney, is probably the oldest of the world’s 112.8 million bloggers and its oldest YouTuber.
She celebrated her 108th birthday on October 20, 2007. She was born in Broken Hill in 1899, when Sydney was the capital of the British colony of New South Wales, ruled from London by Queen Victoria.
Physically frail but mentally alert, Olive raised her three children on her own, survived two world wars , the Great Depression of the 1930s, and worked as a barmaid, an egg sorter, and a station (ranch) cook.
Olive’s blog, The Life of Riley, http://www.allaboutolive.com.au has a huge Internet following.
Prepared by her helper, international film maker Mike Rubbo, and based on his interviews with Olive, it attracts hundreds of enthusiastic comments from many countries, and from bloggers of all ages.
The London (UK) newspaper The Sun recently published a story about Olive: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article548314.ece
Ray (Dad) White(94) a Tennessee tomato grower, is America’s oldest blogger. His website is http://journals.aol.com/white6416r/DadsTomatoGardenJournal/
Best wishes, Eric.