Accomplished Canadian museum curator Donald Crowdis is truly inspiring. At age 93, he is actively posting to his blog “Don to Earth” and he has developed quite a following online, with many of his posts generating dozens of comments. It’s quite possible that he is one of the world’s oldest bloggers. I’ve been reading his blog for a while and on Tuesday he forced us to contemplate our inevitable mortality when, after recently suffering from a stroke, he announced that he just isn’t ready to go yet.
I’ve floated on the remark “Been there, done that” for some time now, but the notion that the moment is approaching when I can no longer say this bothers me. The truth is, I don’t want to go.
UPDATE: Manuel informs us that 95 year-old MarÃa Amelia is the world’s oldest blogger.
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Very inspiring. Don rocks.
The oldest blogger in the world is MarÃa Amelia, a 95 year-old woman from Galicia, Spain:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=339728&rel_no=1
http://amis95.blogspot.com/
It does make me wonder about the future in regards to me, my friends and how will our blogs and MySpace type profiles affect us when we are 93? Will we be able to look back and laugh at ourselves at 21, 36 and 40?
Will our postings
Haunt us
Entertain us
Remind us of lost loves and friendships?
I’m curious what will I think of yesterday’s posting in 20 years?
Will they be used to remember me at my funeral?
The future of online life scrap books is both a curiosity and a reason to stop and question if we really want to announce to the world
“I had meaningless sex with the bar’s fugliest man last night! LOL