The world’s oldest blogger, a 108 year old Australian woman, has died after posting a final message about her ailing health. Olive Riley’s blog or “blob” as she jokingly referred to it was called The Life of Riley. Here is apparently her temporary blog as her actual blog was inundated with hits after the story broke. She wrote about her day-to-day life, memories, and posted videos on YouTube. She took up blogging at the suggestion of Mike Rubbo who filmed a documentary on her life four years ago. As More»

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Congratulations to Rafat Ali of paidContent, what an amazing story. His daily blog focusing on content has been acquired for $30 million by Guardian News & Media. The site was founded in 2002 and has become a  pioneer in the online news space, doing high-quality reporting about online media and digital efforts by big media companies. ContentNext has offices in Santa Monica, Calif., and Manhattan and operates several other sites, and also runs several conferences. This sale comes after the mid-May sale of Ars Technica, a much larger tech-focused site, More»

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