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This has ruffled the feathers of Guardian-reading gals everywhere. Empowerment (in jail) or yet more sexist tosh?

In truth it's not a bad selection although there's nothing to rival the great days of the 1980s (which possibly only I can remember).

I like this Carlsberg 'old lions' one the most.

But only if you live in India, China or Japan.

Bubbling is a new voice mail rival to Twitter which has launched in India and already signed up 50,000 users, helped along by the endorsement of some Bollywood stars. Maybe that should be Mollywood now as we're supposed to call Bombay Mumbai, but never mind.

Even though inventor BubbleTalk is based in Silicon Valley it plans to sidestep North America and Europe for faster-growing markets out east, which is a bit of an insult really to all tech-savvy Westerners.

Anyway you can post and follow Bubble for nothing but you have to pay for the airtime if you actually choose to listen to the message.

Well the one-time boy wonder of Carat has hit 50 in one piece anyway.

Craze was promoted to run Carat UK at an unfeasibly young age by media independent veteran (and now qualified barrister) David Reich.

And started as he meant to go on by promptly throwing a Marketing Week reporter out of his launch party.

But he did a fine job at Carat only to be as surprised as everyone else when he was overlooked for the top European job in favour of someone whose name completely eludes me (as it did many at the time).

£1.25bn says the BBC's Robert Peston , who ought to know about such matters.

This is to keep its current £500m bond in place, pay off the owning Glazer family's IOUs and give the unappealing Floridians a profit.

But Pesto, like everybody else, is assuming that the Red Knights and their chums will stump up about £700m in equity. But really they don't have this kind of money.

So there'll need to be a third force in the financing, which green and yellow scarf-wearing Man U supporters may not be so happy with.

Which might seem an odd activity for an advertising agency but I suppose that, in the end, you get sick of clients and decide you may as well do it yourself.

So it's launching a rape alarm product as the first of a few more (not necessarily rape-related) under the rather strange Ila brand.

And it's bought an Alternative Investment Market company to do it that's now valued at £4.5m.

These things can work, a few years ago John Sandom's design business, now called 1HQ, bought Huntley & Palmer's biscuits and managed to sell it on.

Well it's awful (for a top award winner) isn't it? Like watching your dad dancing at a wedding .

There are no craft skills, no story, no humans (apart from these prats jigging around), not much thought and no strategy as far as I can see.

But it's earned Saatchi & Saatchi the best TV ad of the year award from the British Television Advertisers Association, a gong that has gone to some remarkably fine ads in its time.

The judges must have been drunk, or not drunk enough.

We've remarked on this before: cowardly advertisers and agencies think that if they assemble enough people in one place and pay them to look like they're enjoying themselves the rest of us, in our lemming-like way, will think we should feel the same.

So here are Richard's musings about the world energy scenario and what he in particular can do about it.

And I thought PR was about sending out press releases.

So here we go:

"I am returning from the Wall Street Journal's annual environmental conference in Santa Barbara. The tone of the event changed profoundly this year. The heretofore simple orthodoxy that companies can “do well by doing good” with regards to environmental performance is evolving, if not experiencing complete metamorphosis. Emerging is a more ecumenical approach to environmentalism that threads across a variety of challenges, tools & solutions and even ideologies to create a (even) more complex tapestry of environmental activism and innovation.

You all remember Charles Allen, Gerry Robinson's sidekick at Compass Catering then partner in crime at Granada TV, then sole boss at ITV (when he lumbered the business with the CRR cap on its revenues) and then prime mover in the vastly over-priced acquisitions of Capital Radio and Classic FM to form struggling radio outfit Global Radio.

Now our friend Charles, whose contribution to so many media businesses has been, er, negative, has emerged as executive chairman of EMI , the floundering music company financier Guy Hands of Terra Firma bought for a mind boggling £4bn three years ago.

Bing is Microsoft's answer to Google and in this UK launch ad for Bing by JWT London you can see the strategy: customers are pissed off by Google listings which clearly don't match what they're searching for.

Or are unduly influenced by digi agencies and others throwing a ton of money at said listings to get all sorts of irrelevant stuff up to the top.

And this ad hits that conundrum on the nail.

But the problem is, the strategy's showing. It doesn't make you warm to Bing. You maybe don't warm to Google but for the most part it's always done what you wanted it to (with irritations). Whereas anything Microsoft stands for is big, not that easy to use and susceptible to endless upgrades that cost you money.