Randy Charles Morin Becomes RSS Advisory Board Chair

When I became chairman of the RSS Advisory Board two years ago, one of my goals was to resist the temptation to bogart the job. I wanted to find somebody who could keep the group going as chairman and bring a fresh perspective to the tasks of maintaining the RSS Specification and helping RSS developers and publishers adopt the format.

It became obvious pretty quickly that Randy Charles Morin would do a great job leading the group. With the approval of the board, he's taking over as chairman while I continue as a member.

A member of the board since 2006, Morin is an RSS software developer who created the enormously popular RSS-to-email service SendMeRSS, which had 50,000 users when it was sold to NBC Universal in 2007. Morin began the site -- originally called R-Mail -- as a personal project, turning it into a business when it grew by 15,000 users over a 90-day period.

A member of the RSS community who's been evangelizing the format for years, Morin publishes the RSS Blog, a how-to site for RSS publishers and developers that has more than 6,800 subscribers to its feed. While on the board, Morin led the development of the RSS Best Practices Profile, a set of recommendations that make it easier for feed publishers and programmers to implement RSS 2.0.

One of Morin's first goals as chairman is to pursue the adoption of Portable RSS, a proposal from 2003 to make it possible to embed RSS in other XML dialects.

Rss · 2008/08/12 · 1 COMMENT · Link

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Sendmerss.com appears to be dead. No emails from them since Monday and a 502 error on their page.

#1 · Soelo · 2008/10/22