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This is deeplyshallow, and I am Jason, the guy you can blame for it.

DS was created in 1998 as a literary journal, and almost instantly got lost in the surge of online magazines. For the half-dozen issues I kept it afloat, it wasn't half-bad. In 2001 I dropped the magazine format (though I receive submissions to this day) and used the space to archive my writing. I began blogging, though I'm pretty sure nobody was calling it 'blogging' that year. At least, I hadn't heard anything about it yet. (Site archives only go back as far as 2002; the first year of posts was lost, and I swear I don't know how that happened. Wayback has a few cached pages here.)

In 2004 a number of events conspired to make it possible for me to freelance full-time, and I began to migrate my stand-alone portfolio of work into DS. It's taken a couple of redesigns to really bring this element into its own, but the portfolio's complete, and is a pretty solid representation of what I do, and also what I don't (which is equally important).