Long-expected new site getting close…

The first Sky News Unplugged, the new online-only programme from the rolling news station.

Dave Lee quotes the Sky News Online induction pack: “Your stories appear on the web thanks to HTML, the computer language. Fortunately you need to know very little about how it works.”

Tim Marshall: "There will be people wishing to use this incident to prove that the British media is supine in the face of Government pressure. That is a nonsense. The next time the Government screws up we will again give them a kicking."

Simon Bucks: "Where Drudge got the [Harry in Afghanistan] story from is a mystery - some suspect an element of the British media which wanted to break the story for its own ends."

Oh dear: "Sky News political editor Adam Boulton was spotted in Grantham by Journal reader Mark Wakerley on Tuesday. … *Have you seen a celebrity roaming the streets of Grantham? Click here to tell us about it."

The orginal Brighton Argus story on former BBC, Reuters, ITN, Sky, and CNBC newsreader Ed Mitchell: "The smartly dressed and clean-shaven former journalist now sleeps on benches behind the Babylon Lounge which he jokingly calls the Hotel Babylon."

"Sky News is setting its sights on newspaper websites and the BBC as it looks to expand aggressively into the online news sector. The news operation is preparing for a digital push early in the new year with a full site overhaul."

Jonathan Dube is collecting iPhone news sites, including Sky News’ and BBC Podcasts’

Guido claims 305,624 unique visitors in November, says the Telegraph and Guardian have too many bloggers and asks whether the blogs run by Sky News and Mail Online are "commercially sensible". But Guido, the Graun and Indy claim to be profitable online…

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."

"Giving evidence to the House of Lords Communication Committee, [Andrew] Marr … took a swipe at Sky News, BBC TV’s principal news competitor. He faintly praised Sky by suggesting that it was only ‘frequently right’."

"Wrexam AM Lesley Griffiths yesterday appealed to Sky News bosses to take notice of devolution in Wales. She told BSkyB chief James Murdoch that the network had a “blind spot” in its coverage of Wales."