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Re: Young are damaged by the easy access to online porn

Paul Walsh — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:28:15 -0000

As the CEO of a company that helps ISPs and other companies implement easy-to-use family safety controls, you might expect me to be happy about an article like this. I'm pleased that it will raise awareness for something to be done. It's time that new technologies replace old/out-dated existing systems. But I'm not entirely happy because I don't believe in default blocking.

While I believe in mandating ISPs and other companies that provide Internet access, to implement new and improved family safety controls, I do not believe in default blocking. I consulted the British Government on the Parliamentary Inquiry to which Simon Grehan refers and my advice then, would be the same for the Irish Government: make it easy for parents to block content they deem unsuitable/harmful for their children. But do not block by default as that is nothing short of censorship. The only time default blocking should be considered is when you are talking about publish wifi hotspots, companies etc.

Re: First cmypitch event a great success

Paul Walsh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:10:23 -0000

Great stuff! Fergus, will you please keep track of the companies that getting funding so we can see how many deals are closed each quarter?

Re: Getting Out From Behind Your Desk

Paul Walsh — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:42:28 -0000

I agree. I met with my early-stage investor, Paul Birch yesterday to walk him through our latest designs for Wubud. It's important that investors take a proactive approach to staying on top of things, as it's easy for entrepreneurs to forget to provide regular updates - which provide confidence in your ability to deliver - especially when things slide.

Re: Guardian launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free

Paul Walsh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:39:10 -0000

Hi Paul, thanks for asking. Why not pop me an email paulatsegala.com and I'll send it to you :)

Re: OpenSoho on St Patricks Day

Paul Walsh — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:11:01 -0000

That's cool where it is Simon :)

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

Paul Walsh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:34:01 -0000

I've added more detail to the post Mat. You can apply by sending me an email with as much information about yourself as possible - it's that simple. paulatsegala.com

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

Paul Walsh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:21:13 -0000

I'm not entirely sure how we're going to do it - possibly by invitation. Naturally we'll look at the comments here also - what's your background/current interests?

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

Paul Walsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:20:53 -0000

You certainly are Jackie :)

Yeah you'd have to cover the cost of travel to London - or just make your way there directly and ensure you land at around the same time to avail of the pickup transport.

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

Paul Walsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:16:37 -0000

3 nights and flying from Luton (London) airport.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:31:07 -0000

And how many aren't life bloody coaches?

Re: More tickets released for OpenSoho4

Paul Walsh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:48:37 -0000

Thanks Ken. Nice to see you signed up too :)

Re: What do you think of the new spinvox.com?

Paul Walsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:27:28 -0000

"experts in human factors & usability" either they don't, or they should be fired - either because they don't know what they're doing or because management don't care for what they have to say.

There's no way in the world, that any form of performance, user testing or accessibility compliance testing was performed on this site.

Re: What do you think of the new spinvox.com?

Paul Walsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:42:38 -0000

It's that bad I'm wondering if it's done for some kind of publicity stunt - i.e. to attract comments to attract new visitors. All of the technical points mentioned already, are well documented and understood by half-brained designers. Who designed it?

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:12:50 -0000

You can find out by clicking on the link in the post - try to login. I wouldn't make any assumptions as your contacts could still be getting invites from you - even after a few years - like mine!

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:41:22 -0000

Now that I've seen it's published I can confirm that it is true - I have a copy of the actual email thread. I decided against publishing it as it would have been irresponsible of me.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:39:18 -0000

Manoj - get off the political fence with the general obvious statements. There's a hospital for some people but it doesn't mean it's a good place for anyone.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:37:26 -0000

Vanessa I'm delighted to hear you got something out of Ecademy - really, I am. I'm sure others have benefited from it too. In the long run however, when it comes to any of the people I know (journalists, correspondents, entrepreneurs, PR people, marketers etc.) not one of them has anything positive to say about Ecademy. The Blackstar stuff is very close to pyramid marketing according to some. Also, there are lots of other negative threads going around. If you're plugged into the tech industry you'd know all of this.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:37:25 -0000

@ANGELSDEN with the exception of the odd comment on here, I have yet to hear positive things about Ecademy - not one single person I know has a good word to say - and that's *a lot* of people. OK, so perhaps you're an exception to the rule ;)

I must declare that I don't know Thomas or Penny. I can say however, that I kinda know (of) Julian - CTO. Here's the last (Twitter) conversation I had with him a while back:

Me: "I think Twitter is turning into a conversational tool" (we're going back a while!)
Julian in response to my comment: "I think Twitter turning into a conversational tool is stupid"
Me: "Julian, you're now conversing with me"
Julian: :::Radio silence:::

Dear 'bad things', bring it on baby.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:52:15 -0000

@laurence 1) having that feature is SPAM if it means that your contacts continue to receive invites **years** after they were sent! 2) it was switched off.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:56:27 -0000

@haikuriousgeorg it is good for some - just like self-harm is good for some. It's full of people who don't know any better and people who don't know how to delete there account - oh, and those like me, who registered an account years ago.

Without giving names, very qualified and respected people agree that the Blackstar thing is a little short of pyramid marketing.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:17:11 -0000

I've received many Twitter DMs, emails and FB messages since writing this post - all from people who wanted to delete their account but until now, found it too difficult. Here's a message I got from a FB friend request on FB - very funny:

Well done on the "Get Rid of the Scourge that is Ecademy" post. Getting rid of one's Ecademy account is like washing the filth off after visiting a rendering plant which only slaughters slow, dim-witted animals.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Paul Walsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:11:01 -0000

@haikuriousgeorg - I realised a long time ago but didn't feel it was appropriate for me to publish the management email thread that you sent me - it would have made me look like an even bigger dick :-) BTW I had it out with the CEO in Adam Street when he introduced himself to me in the gents toilets at Adam Street - how fitting huh!

@Webby Boy - glad to be of assistance lol

Re: Latitude: The Trojan Horse — Why “Who’s Nearby?” Is Not A Business

Paul Walsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:26:38 -0000

@tomsoft There is no agreement with Operators - Google gathered the information itself. I hear the Operators are actually working on a plan to disrupt Google's information but as we all know, it takes them years to achieve anything.

Re: Latitude: The Trojan Horse — Why “Who’s Nearby?” Is Not A Business

Paul Walsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:25:11 -0000

I agree with everything said here. Location is great but only if you couple it with context - i.e. you solve a problem. Well put Andrew.

Re: Think of a name and win and iPod Touch

Paul Walsh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:41:20 -0000

I'd like to thank you all for your contribution - really, it's very much appreciated! I'm afraid to say however, that I was unable to pick a winner. Some of you will think I should give away the prize to the best of the bunch - and I've done that before - however, I don't want these little competitions to turn into lotteries or people will start to leave random answers to get their name put into the hat.

I'm very sorry! I'll tell you the name we came up with after the domain has been bought ;-)

Again, thank you so much for helping. BTW, if you fancy being the first to hear about my events, then why not sign up to my mailing list - I'm going to inform people via email first, followed by this blog, twitter and facebook.

http://paulfwalsh.com/events/