The Blog That Used to Live at This Address
If you followed a link here from somewhere old, you may have been aiming for a different KB Cafe. For years,
one corner of this domain, kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM, was home to a
blog with a wonderful name: “I Blog, Therefore I Am.” This is the story of what
was there, and why we built it a home again instead of letting those links go cold.
Who wrote it
The blog was Randy Charles Morin’s. If you were near the open web in the mid-2000s, the name will land: Morin chaired the RSS Advisory Board, the group that maintains the RSS 2.0 specification, and he authored RSS autodiscovery, the small standard that lets your browser find a page’s feed on its own. From this address he wrote about RSS, Atom, .NET, threading, and the machinery of the open web, the same fundamentals KB Cafe still documents today.
What ran here
“I Blog, Therefore I Am” was the front door to a small cluster of feed-era work:
- The RSS Blog, years of writing on feed standards, podcasting, and feed readers, back when those were live arguments rather than settled plumbing.
- Rmail, an RSS-to-email service started in 2005 that grew past 50,000 subscribers and was acquired by NBC in 2007. The “read this feed in your inbox” idea, two decades before the newsletter boom made it ordinary.
- USM and a shelf of feed utilities, the toolkit of a moment when feeds genuinely ran the open web.
Why we rebuilt the address instead of redirecting it
KB Cafe is, in 2026, a different site for a different web: an interactive AI knowledge base and developer reference. The easy move would have been to point every old link at the homepage and move on. We didn’t, because the history is a straight line, not a coincidence. A blog about feeds, an RSS-to-email service, a feed-standards chairman, that lineage runs directly into what we care about now.
The address that helped write the RSS web should not 404.
So /iBLOGthere4iM is a kept heritage page: it honors what was there,
credits the person who built it, and points its long-standing inbound links to the modern work that carries the
same spirit. It is restoration, not impersonation, we are not reprinting Morin’s posts under our name.
Where that work lives now
The clearest descendant is the Feeds section: the complete modern guide to RSS, Atom, and OPML, with free, private, client-side tools to validate, convert, and read any feed. If The RSS Blog and Rmail had a 2026 heir on this domain, that is it. New to the format? Start with what RSS actually is. And KB Cafe publishes its own feed again, which feels right for the address where so much of the RSS web was once written.
Related
Read the iBLOGthere4iM heritage page, the feed tools, or why RSS didn’t actually die.