"The Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead has formally called for an apology from US website the Drudge Report for breaking the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan." Don’t hold your breath, councillor…

"Matt Drudge … remains an elusive, mysterious figure but the internet pioneer is arguably the single most powerful journalist – though his detractors even deny that is his occupation - in the world."

"On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky."

"Matt Drudge’s eponymous website should be booming. So why is site traffic dragging? comScore says the site attracted 1.5 million unique visitors last November, down 10% y/y. "

"The fact that Portfolio has taken to advertising its articles on Drudge seems very interesting to us."

What’s The Drudge Report worth? Up to $10m, apparently: "Drudge wouldn’t talk to us, but we sat down with three experts at media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips … to come up with some numbers."

They just noticed that Sky News interview with Drudge, who said: "One of the reasons I’m in London is that the media here is unparalleled. It surpasses New York, it surpasses all the cities of the world. This is the media town."

Dan Sabbagh’s media column covers some Google’s Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge’s effect on Mail Online’s traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.

"He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions."