Last night was the end-of-year Compass political panel: host Bruce Rainnie gathered with pundits Rick MacLean and Ian Dowbiggin to talk about the stories of 2008. Rick gave a tip-of-the-hat to OpenCorporations, proving that one excellent way of ending up on “stories of the year” lists is to do your swashbuckling in the closing weeks of the year.

As you can see from the statistics page, traffic has simmered down considerably on the site since the crazy heights of last week; other shiny objects are now attracting our eyes.