Yesterday we brought you the picture story of the Paddy Power Hollywood-style sign construction on the fields overlooking the Celtic Manor Golf Course in Newport, Wales- the home of the 2010 Ryder Cup.

Let me take you back a few months to the annual Cheltenham Gold Cup- one of the meetings on the horse racing calendar. The Gold Cup’s sponsors, Paddy Power, decided to put a ‘Hollywood style sign’ on one of the fields overlooking the course. Great advertising.  And that got Paddy Power thinking.

Campaigns Top 10 Creative Agency Ranking has just been released and blur Group debuts at No 7. We’re flattered. To quote: “… most of the creative agencies in our 2010 Top 10 are smaller than they were two years ago. Only one breaks the mould. And they were not even around two years ago.

The BBC has just reported that the UK’s RSPB has Crowdsourced 90,000 volunteers to report on Hedgehog spottings in the UK. It reveals that 25% of UK gardens get hedgehogs dropping by on a monthly basis. Those little critters!

The long term future of the newspaper industry is not looking good- and that’s a bit of an understatement. Between 2007 and 2009, the UK newspaper publishing market declined by 21%. Quite simply, the industry cannot continue in its current guise.

We’ve been given a sneak look at the latest agency rankings due out next week from a well known marketing magazine. It lists the worlds largest ad agencies. And it will have the industry reeling. blur Group comes in 7th. This is a bit cheeky but we think it’s OK to spill a few beans [...]

The internet is the undisputed home of all things weird and wonderful- so it’s hardly surprising that the wide variety of Crowdsourcing ideas range from the fantastic to the innovative, valuable, pointless (?) and downright bizarre.

The Pope has not been spotted on British shores for 28 years- so his UK arrival has generated a wave of pent-up media hysteria. The latest incumbent has a greater global Crowd following than The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson put together.

Meet the New Twitter – Twitter.com. New interface, media… and more. The real-time information network.

Making a profit in the stock market is a tough test at the best of times- especially in the past two years, during a period of global recession. There is rarely a safe way to make a quick buck in the temperamental crowded world of share trading.

I was late for work yesterday. Very late. And why? The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union called strike action for the umpteenth time and I was forced to join the rest of London’s commuters in mile long queues, traffic and hullaballoo.

Well that’s it then. The summer is over. The kids are going back to school, work outfits are in transition and we’re all bracing ourselves for colder, windier, rainier and generally darker days. So not a lot has changed then really- in Britain at least.

Feeling a bit strapped for cash this autumn (I’m sorry, but September 1st marks the end of the summer in my book) but intend on getting hitched before Christmas? Are you gay/lesbian and understand social media? Would you like to have an all-expenses-paid wedding, thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean?