Who decides what the hashtags are? As I'd like to reserve #superbowl, #olympics, #worldcup, #snow, #summer and perhaps #gmaildown for my yet-to-be-invented product.

You mean like your email account?

No cable in the area? 'The area' being the middle of London?

Why should Google pay the networks to show their shows to a larger audience? The shows are funded by advertising, the adverts are still in there when you watch them on your Google TV. All Google are trying to do is organise online content you can already watch on your PC.

This is classic old media all over again. They think it's better to lock down content so that almost nobody watches it, than monetise the enormous potential audience of the Internet.

From the article: "Parliamentary sources have told PC Pro that the Tories' plans were based on foreign investment in the UK broadband network. Google is one of the few companies with the necessary capital and motivation to invest in British broadband" so this story is based soley on the fact that Google is a foreign Internet company with money?

The Guardian is probably the most net savvy of the big UK papers, so it seems strange that they would ask for something so ludicrous. I'd believe this a bit more if there was a story on it on their own website.