Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

I understand why you did this as they can distract alright, it’s amazing how much time they can suck up.
You may want to update the site now “connect with me on Facebook” and follow me on twitter” just such great links now

Paul good luck with the new project. Although I am not a brave as you, I think focusing on being a creator of content and not a consumer of content is the right way to go. People like John Battelle, Louis Gray or even Scoble rarely if ever retweet other peoples content. They focus on blogging, video recording or event creation and then spread the word using social media in place of RSS.

Remember on each of our death beds I doubt we will ever say I just wish I twittered more or had one more follower.

Thanks Sam K. I’ll update the site right away.

@Sam, the only thing I want to say on my death bed is “I wish I had made even more mistakes”.

Sam, in fairness, I believe Robert does do a lot of retweeting of other people’s content, and he also highlights others work with his extensive use of Twitter favorites.

In addition, a lot of the tweets from me come from my Delicious bookmarks of other people’s work. Even if they don’t look like RTs, the effect is the same.

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I’ll miss the random updates, but happy to follow the blog for news of your continual efforts to change the world.

Good luck staying away

Good luck chap, shout if I can help at all.

I think you’ve made sort of the right decision. I used to follow you on Twitter but stopped as it became overrun with too many fights with people, settling of scores and generally just too much anger and frustration - it was beginning to stress me out and we’ve never even met! No offence meant but if you’d put the same energy into other aspects of what you do that you did in to your rows with Nero or Paul Carr (maybe I have those names wrong - it’s been a while) then you have the potential to be scary good!

I say it’s “sort-of” the right decision because I do feel it’s too extreme (though from reading your tweets, my impression of you is that you are prone to extreme behavioural swings; though not even I could have forecast you deleting your Twitter & Facebook accounts!); I think you just needed to learn to use these media differently. My own view (and what I practice) is I stop following anyone who’s tweets wind me up - as you can tell, I’m clearly a sensitive old soul! - and I eschew irrelevant banter on Twitter as for me that’s an information sharing medium. Facebook is for fun.

In any case, I have observed you from afar and my humble opinion is you do need a break from “the tech scene” in London. It had become a battleground of egos and when that happens, there is never a winner. I would advise anyone to take all that with a pinch of salt, go quietly about their business, treat everyone with respect even if it’s not reciprocated and neither speak too much or your successes or failures but always know it’s about the long run. Kipling says it much better than I could ever:

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

That’s what works for me; I just hope you find what works for you and I wish you the very best.

“Steve” the last time I looked, Dealmaker** was still following me before I deleted my account.

“Steve” so cliche! Back to business Paul - your spin out business is going to change the way people think about security, safety and good living! Rock on!

Eh?

I’m not even sure I understand those comments to me though the use of inverted commas around my name makes me suspect they aren’t meant to be nice. I don’t even know what Dealmaker** is ..?!

I was just checking your blog as I do from time-to-time and am surprised my post got this reaction. No offense meant, for sure, and I stick with what I said: I hope you find what works for you and I wish you the best.

Regards (from a slightly baffled),

Steve Logan

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