Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin (b. May 20, 1969 in Cobalt, Ontario) is a professional RVer and blogger. He runs the infamous TalkSports website. He was chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored the RSS autodiscovery specification and contributed largely to the RSS profile.

In 2005, Morin began Rmail, a self-funded web venture that enabled RSS feeds to be read over email. The site grew to more than 50,000 subscribers, and in April 2007 he sold it to the broadcast network NBC. NBC digital media executive George Kliavkoff said the acquisition would enable the company to "make predictive understandings of what they might be interested in and start learning about RSS." The TV network rebranded the service as SendMeRSS.

He graduated from the University of Windsor in 1990 and lives in Brampton, Ontario.

Bibliography

He authored and co-authored several technical books.

• Programming Windows Services (2000) ISBN 0-471-38576-X
• Waite Group's COM/DCOM Primer Plus
• COM/DCOM Unleashed (1999) ISBN 0-672-31352-9
• Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Unleashed (1999) ISBN 0-672-31293-X
• COM/DCOM (Korean)
• COM/DCOM (Japanese)
• COM+ Unleashed

In the news

• On January 30, 2006, Joined the RSS Advisory Board.
• On August 12, 2008, becomes chairman of the RSS Advisory Board.

External links

• Morin's weblog
• KBCafe
• The RSS Blog
• TalkSports Website