Time for a restart

After 9 years online, hundreds of terrible websites, tons of spam, and a few instances of rather bad poetry it's time to rebuild iamsad.co.uk, (again) - perhaps one last time...

A lot has changed since 1999. The insanity of the DotCom bubble is but a memory, Google rules the known search world, (who remembers Netscape?), Web 2.0 and social networking have been around for a while now and the big money types are scratching around for the next big thing.

Meanwhile, at ground level more people are publishing stuff about themselves than ever, mainly it seems on Facebook but also on various other social or business networking sites and good old blogs. And why not? Enabling anyone and everyone to post whatever they like whenever they like is one of the Internet's most revolutionary and liberating achievements. The downside of this of course if that most stuff that gets published on the Internet is about as well thought through as pizza order and similarly well written.

However, in the world of online gossip and personal musings junk is to be expected and it would be a bit pompous to criticise what is often little more than an online version of conversation, so these days I'm more inclined to point a finger at more business orientated websites. Individuals spending their time online is one thing, but businesses 4-, 5- or even 6-figure sums and ending up with complete rubbish is a different story and one the the Sadmaster is more qualified than most to tell...