Not that I was planning to move to China anytime soon, but today’s news pretty much confirmed my desire to stay away. The Chinese Government has started an aggressive campaign to stamp out what it calls ‘internet addiction’ which it has now categorised as a clinical disorder. If there is such a thing, then I’m a terminal case!

Online business in Australia is the forgotten casualty in the recent debates over Senator Conroy’s internet filter. This issue isn’t about censorship – it should be about the damage these plans could inflict on the internet economy.

Designed to not only block illegal websites but also to filter to ‘inappropriate’ content, Senator Conroy’s push for a two-tiered ISP filter scheme has come under increasing fire from the industry as having negative effects on the Australian internet space.

The internet thrives on the idea of democratic information – everyone has the ability to contribute to the sum of human knowledge that populates the web. Sadly, not everyone uses this new freedom with the same sense of responsibility and this can have devastating results.

The recent credit crunch and global economic slowdown has been blamed in large part on the popular practice of naked short selling.

If you were one of the 7.8 million Australian’s who watched the Olympic ceremony, like me, you would have also seen the ad-breaks at critical points in the program, like just when the fireworks were climaxing. First of all, shame on you Channel 7 – worst – coverage - ever.

I must say, one thing that I have noticed recently in my SEO travels, is the lack of attention people seem to be placing on the page titles of their websites.

I have found some really bad titles over the last few weeks, people adding too much content, not enough content, keyword stuffing, repetition of similar terms and not having a unique page title for every one of their web pages.