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Just when I think irony has finally been pushed off a cliff to its death (often while people watching in certain areas of my neighborhood in Brooklyn), my faith is renewed.

This morning I set out to read a New York Times article about the convergence of casual games and social networks, as seen in the success of games like Scrabulous, and the enormous potential that has for generating advertising revenue. No sooner had I clicked on the title, which included the phrase "a net to snare social networkers" in it, than was I assaulted by an OpinionMart popup survey asking me to give it all up right then and there.

It's not a bad article, by the way, but since I still can't figure out if this is intentional irony or not, I'm resisting the urge to help the Times with their potential link baiting strategy on this one.

January 15, 2008 | 8:15 AM Comments  0 comments

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