The following excerpts from a Don Tapscott commentary on globeandmail.com advancing ideas from his new book, Grown Up Digital, should be read in conjuction with two other recent posts:

• The Web 2.0 campaign
• The decline of autos and newspapers

The first lesson appears to be start by sucking in aides in at the bottom and working one's way up. Oh, and don't leave a callback number.

The Globe and Mail's Andrew Ryan runs down a list of top pundits.

Five of the nine on the list are ex-politicos rather than career journos.

Two others are neither fish nor fowl -- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are court jesters. They will be hosting InDecision '08 on the Comedy Network.

In 2004, Democrat Howard Dean harnessed the power of Meetup and fundraised in small amounts from a large base of donors -- and finished third in Iowa.

In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama took online social media tools to new heights, won Iowa and his party's nomination, has raised obscene amounts of money, and may well be the president-elect of the United States by late Tuesday.

The NYT says not since John F. Kennedy became president in 1960 has a new technology had such an impact on a U.S. presidential election. But it also cautions that the old media remains powerful.

On Oct. 9, 2007, Esther Enkin, then-acting editor in chief of CBC News, welcomed people to the editors' blog.

"Let the conversation begin," were the closing words of the inaugural post.

CBC News hasn't had anything to say through its blog since June 13.

Since then, the only two editorial pronouncements of note came from John Cruickshank, publisher of CBC News -- and they were billed as letters from the publisher, and not as more egalitarian postings on the editors' blog.

One was on the Mallick cock-up, and the second trumpeted CBC's performance on election coverage. Comments were opened up (there appeared to be a good mix of both positive and negative comments towards CBC), although I didn't notice any direct responses by Cruickshank.

It would appear that one person now speaks for CBC News, and it ain't through the editors' blog. And it ain't really a conversation.

Unfortunately for McCain, the election hasn't happened yet.

And unfortunately for the Denver Post, the test run of their online election results system showed up on the live site. A reader spotted the results on Saturday night.

You can get the story at Denver Westword's Latest Word blog.

(h/t to Romenesko)

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The collapse of Canada's most scurrilous satirical magazine has been noticed by the gnomes of Eighth Avenue.

From the NYT:

Yahoo News, by some measures one of the most popular news Web sites in the country, has repeatedly broken its own traffic records during the election year. The news arm of the search engine expects Tuesday’s day of voting and Wednesday’s day-after to raise the bar higher still.

“Yahoo has taken its place as the great starting point for any big event,” said Neeraj Khemlani, the vice president for programming and development.

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