This morning on Marian Finucane’s radio programme there was a discussion on Twitter and the superinjuctions which then went on to the wider area of the internet and privacy and who owns and who is responsible for information that is transmitted.  As is usual on these discussions it does not take long for complete rubbish to be spouted as well as doses of cynicism from Marian herself as if the mainstream media is the bastion of privacy defence.

Poor Minister for Communications and Natural Resources ( and that makes him in charge of t’internet!)  Pat Rabbitte got his Internet gurus mixed up when he referred to ‘Mr. Google, Zuckerberg’.  I thought a helpful guide might be in order so if he ever gets to meet Mr. Google or Mr. Facebook he’ll know who is who.

So Pat Rabbitte – especially for you.

(To the tune of the intro to Resevoir Dogs)

This is Mr. Google Larry Page

This is also Mr. Google his name is Sergey Brin

They employ lots of people in Dublin – bought a building off NAMA and all so they did.

This is Mr. Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, he was in Dublin last week, played with a hurley that was presented to him (very on trend!)  He has employees here – (important for tax payers and FDI stuff etc.) For bonus points watch The Social Network which covers the early history of Facebook.

Now this is Mr. Twitter, Jack Dorsey

and that’s Mr. Twitter too, Biz Stone –

There are a few other Mr. Twitters also.  These are people you and Minister Bruton should be talking to about getting to come to Dublin and set up their European HQ. Although Mr. Bruton had not talked to them when Willie O’Dea checked earlier this month.
 

Other internet and computer type people for Minister Rabitte’s cog notes?   Suggestions are most welcome.  Internet Service Provider types? And a topic list? Net Neutrality? What Broadband actually is? Cloud Computing?