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As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. It is easy to get a little jaded, quickly cubby-holing something new just because it acts like something already out there. I admit to doing just that when I first visited the 3deep web site.

Luckily, I was invited to talk with CEO, Gary Griffiths, of LiteScape Technologies, and Director of Product Marketing, Henry 'Hank' Nothhaft Jr. (Twitter), developers of the 3deep product. For the next hour, I was able to get a really good idea about their innovative new product. And although it isn't out in beta to play with yet, it is definitely worth learning about.

First I noticed Paolo's post on 4 years blogging (via Dave), then Phil's post. The bizarre part is I started blogging on the exact same day, 21 March 2002, as my fellow kiwi Phil Pearson - we even blogged about the same topic, RCS (Radio Community Server). I didn't get to know Phil until a couple of years after that, so it was total coincidence we started blogging on the same day. It's no coincidence though that Phil, Paolo and I were all inspired to start blogging 4 years ago by Dave Winer - who's just coming up to 9 years blogging! Yikes, we're all pups compared to that.

My first Radio Userland blog was called 'Modern Web' and was short-lived (more info here). But about about a year later Read/WriteWeb was born. Here's a screenshot of the first blog.

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