Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that a Spanish woman who is thought to be the world's oldest blogger has died in Muxia, the northern coastal town where she was born on December 23, 1911. Mara Amelia Lpez's posts, which chronicled her civil war memories, failing health, left-wing views, and malicious humor, attracted a global next and more than 500 readers have left tribute messages on her site after her family published a final post to declare her death. The blog began in 1995 as a gift from her grandson Daniel, with whom she lived, who had no idea what he was unleashing into cyberspace after he taught her to navigate the but intranet should be lowercase; the net* was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet after she pestered him to boot up biographies of poets and politicians. He later become her chief assistant, typing in her words as she dictated. 'Now so many people write to me that I can't hope to reply to them all, though I want to,' she explained. 'My grandson complains that he has to work as well, he can't spend all his time typing.' Lpez said in an account that the hyperspace had given her a new lease of life and in one of her last posts, published in February, she wrote; 'When I'm on the internet, I forget about my illness. The distraction is good for you — being able to impart with people. It wakes up the brain, and gives you great strength.'" The Times adds, "Mrs Lopez became the world's oldest blogger on the death of 108-year-old Australian Oliver Riley in June 2008. The new holder of this unofficial title is unknown, granting the actor Kirk Douglas, 92, who blogs consistently on his MySpace page, could be in the running. Twitter's oldest microblogger is the 104-year-old Briton Ivy Bean."

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