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A fellow freelancer bud of mine recently wrote a blog Web Industry – Lack of Ethics and Morals. I was going to respond with a comment to his blog, but I figured I had a little more to say on the issue of “Lack of Ethics and Morals” on the Internet. Is it really a ‘lack of’, or is it that the Internet just hasn’t fallen into place like society has yet? We have to remember that the Internet is a reflection of us, we are a society, and how have we been settling into life on this planet? (No, I’m not going to get all philosophical!)

I’m a strong believer in the integrity of the internet. So I am going to take my web designer hat off (producing the product) & put on my directory owner hat (marketing the product).
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I don’t normally run competitions or promote web hosts, but our programmer who is also an ace web host is running a competition that you just can’t miss out on. The great thing about TOLRA’s web hosting is … they still believe in service & know their industry.

So while I’m late in promoting it, here it is….

If you follow @tolranet on twitter and tweet the following text then you go into a draw to win a years free web hosting. The first three names drawn will receive a voucher for 1 years free hosting on our popular BUSINESS-1 hosting plan:

Win a years free web hosting in the UK or US with hourly backups from @tolranet http://tinyurl.com/yzh8rhx #hosting

The draw will be held on 2nd November and the winners sent a direct message on twitter with the voucher code. Only those tweeting the above text exactly and following @tolranet at the time of the draw will be eligible.

• The winners may redeem the voucher against an annual subscription to a BUSINESS-1 or any larger hosting plan.
• The winners may choose to have their account hosted in either the UK or the US.
• The winners will be announced on twitter.
• No cash alternative will be given.
• Hosting is subject to our terms.
• The decisions of TOLRA Micro Systems Limited are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

If you don’t know what twitter is then you can find out all about it and create a free account at twitter.com
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To blog or not to blog, that is the question! It’s also a question that has been asked a lot over the years.

Blogs have become a highly networked collaboration of online knowledge, communication and research. Mechanisms provide the possibility for blogs to link to each other and provide possibilities for networking and the sharing of knowledge in a public and simple manner. People are now realizing they can do a lot more with blogs.

A blogs content can classify the purpose of the blog. You’ve probably read a blog before and not known it as a blog. Personal blogs, refer to blogs that talks about the blogger himself. Other classifications include photoblogs, moblogs, vblogs, podcast blogs and business blogs.

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I know, I know …. another blog about social networking! Yes folks, it is. There seems to be a trend here doesn’t there?

More than likely your arrival here is the result of social networking! How many of you found your way here from the likes of my blog being Twittered about, then my Twitter fed into my other social networking sites and other blogs. What a snowball hey!

But it was inevitable. I knew when I first heard that retarded dial tone when I first connected to dial-up on the Internet, that we would have to start watching our P’s & Q’s.

Not only is Big Brother watching… most of the world’s online community is watching!

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More & more small business websites are making their way onto the world wide web. No longer do small businesses need reminding the importance of a web presence. They get it.

But what then?

Too many small businesses are regarding their website as a business card or brochure. But just take a moment. How many business cards, brochures & stamps can you buy for the price of a website? Then it stands to reason that a website should be taken a little more seriously. Just leaving it there is like having one VERY expensive business card. Yet it can be so much more!

Simply put…. Websites need to be worked! Here’s 5 reasons why.

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There’s been a lot of opinions, articles, blog, MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and any other media on Ashton Kutcher‘s [@aplusk] Twitter challenge to CNN. What started off as a bit of fun & frivolity soon became a bone of contention for many so-called “serious” Twitterites.

So what happened that made having fun on social networks and microblogs such a crime?

I sat back and had a laugh every time I saw something about it. It’s not like Ashton wasn’t a serious twitter’er before hand. The man incessantly tweets about all kinds of things, just like many other people we know. That he has become so popular really is a testimony to the value of his entity and interaction. In my opinion he has added value to the Twitter universe. He’s added family [@mrskutcher], added photos, added videos, taken the Twitterverse to the Academy Awards after party, has introduced us to all manner of celebrities and humanized them.

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