I Blog, Therefore I Am.
This address, kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/, was home to one of the early web’s pioneering
tech blogs: Randy Charles Morin’s “I Blog, Therefore I Am,” running through
the mid-2000s. KB Cafe has changed hands and purpose since, but this page honors what was here, and points
you to where that work lives on now.
Randy Charles Morin
A Canadian web publisher and an early blogging pioneer. Morin chaired the RSS Advisory Board (which publishes the RSS 2.0 specification) and authored the RSS autodiscovery spec, the standard that lets a browser find a page’s feed automatically. From this blog he wrote about RSS, Atom, .NET, threading, and the open web, the same fundamentals KB Cafe still documents today.
His writing continues at The RSS Blog.
The RSS era of KB Cafe
- The RSS Blog: RSS standards, podcasting, feed readers, and open-web advocacy.
- Rmail: an RSS-to-email service started in 2005 that grew past 50,000 subscribers and was acquired by NBC in 2007.
- USM (Universal Subscription Mechanism), Atom API work, and a shelf of feed utilities, the toolkit of the era when feeds ran the open web.
Where it lives now
KB Cafe is, in 2026, an interactive AI knowledge base and developer reference, a different site for a different web. But its RSS heritage is a direct line, not a coincidence, and the Feeds section is the modern heir to The RSS Blog and Rmail:
- Feeds, RSS, Atom & OPML, the complete modern guide, with free, private, client-side tools to validate, convert, and read any feed. The direct descendant of this work.
- What is RSS?, the format, explained for today.
- The KB Cafe blog, including the story of this address, and new writing on RSS and the open web in 2026 and feeds as the structured layer for AI.
- Developer references, threading, memory, networking, and the rest of the fundamentals this blog used to cover, rebuilt and modernized.
And KB Cafe publishes its own feed again, fitting for the address where so much of the RSS web was once written.
This is a heritage page, not a recreation of the original posts. It exists to honor the history of
/iBLOGthere4iM/ and to send its long-standing inbound links to the modern work that carries
the same spirit. With respect to Randy Charles Morin, who built something that mattered here.