Rafe Needleman, Editor-at-Large of C|Net’s Webware Site on “Rafe’s Fav’s,” Being Happy and Brilliant Web Aps.

Learn about live blogging, the conference circuit, “the day I scared Rafe,” martinis and being happy.

On this week’s DishyMix show, meet Rafe Needleman. He is the chief blogger of WebWare, “Cool Web 2.0 Aps for Everyone,” which is part of CNET.com. He is a seasoned professional journalist, he’s a tech dweeb, a new daddy, a Twitterer, and he has the most fun job in tech editorial — he gets to play with Web Aps for a living. Lucky Suckah!

Some highlights from the interview with Rafe: “I will say this, of all the companies that I’ve discussed in my column, “The Catch of the Day” and “Bubble 1.0″ at The Red Herring, I would estimate 90 percent of them are out of business.”

“When I was 14 I wrote a Star Trek quiz book, yeah. My parents were both authors. My dad lent me his agent who actually got it published. Considering my lousy grades, I think it helped me get into both high school and college later on.”

“Google Docs is absolutely brilliant, and the reason it’s brilliant is because of the way you can collaborate with people in real time.”