About disassociated.com
John Lampard
Very, very, ex web designer turned content producer, blogger, and self-styled link mogul, otherwise wanna-be jack of all trades, but master of none. Don’t ask me what I actually do because not even I know that.
I’ve been on the web since 1997, and along the way helped set up the Australian INfront in 1999, became a Top 100 Australian blogger in 2007, and have picked up about 30 thousand unique visitors each month.
I’m Sydney based, but when luck permits can be found on the NSW Central Coast from time to time.
In another life I am an exhibitionist (can’t you tell?), undercover private investigator, super hero, and wanna-be rock star. My therapist recommends I don’t discuss these aspects of my life too much further however.
disassociated.com
disassociated.com (all lowercase by the way) is a personal blog or website without a specialist, or niche, focus. I feature whatever takes my interest, hence the notepad/link blog feel.
disassociated (did I mention all in lowercase?) has not always been a blog though, it was once a web design portfolio, and has played host to an array of other weird – and possibly best forgotten – ideas. More on that below.
What’s with the name disassociated?
This crops up in conversation from time to time. disassociated derives from disassociated partners, originally a would-be music video production group I was part of in London.
Plans change. I moved to Sydney and discovered the internet.
An extended short history of disassociated.com
disassociated has been through numerous changes in direction since first going online in 1997. It started life as an episodic web fiction series called Is That The Time? which was published in monthly installments for two years.
As I became more interested in web design disassociated became a portfolio of sorts. Since about 2002 disassociated has become more blog-like, though for whatever reasons – possibly sentimental – I still prefer to consider it a website.
In mid 1998 I started keeping an online journal, which were the forerunners of weblogs, or blogs. That particular journal probably ran for about 18 months or so.
The domain name disassociated.com.au was first registered in late 1997, and I bought the dot com extension in 2003.
