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Friday, April 13, 2007

World’s Oldest Blogger?


It seems that today everyone has a blog, with over 58 million blogs; all ages of bloggers from kids to senior citizens are blogging about their lives and topics of interest. After searching the net it turns out that there is a nearly 93 year’s old-blogger named Donald Crowdis and there are rumours that he may be the world's oldest blogger.

In his youth, Mr. Crowdis studied education, commerce and took pre-med classes with his mother's encouragement. After working as a teacher, he was appointed curator of the Nova Scotia Museum, and spent 25 years there.

Donald's blog Don To Earth External Link recently earned mentions on the Web sites of CBS, the BBC and Boing Boing, a widely read pop culture and technology site that suggested he may be the world's oldest blogger. The burst of publicity has caused his readership to spike; his blog had recorded more than 15,000 visitors by late yesterday.

Mr. Crowdis does not own a computer right now. He writes his blog entries longhand at his kitchen table in the mornings, after he has breakfast and takes his pills. Then he mails them across the country to New Brunswick. There, a family member types them into a computer and posts them on Mr. Crowdis' eclectic blog, Don To Earth.

Donald shares wisdom on all kinds of things: his age, pre-packaged meals, religious strife, cannibalism, the palolo worms and many other topics. Today, Crowdis lives in Toronto and his blog Don To Earth is updated a few times each week.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if you know some older blogger than Donald, I hope you will inform me in the comments

erspective on life and read his experiences, you can visit Mr Crowdis here.

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