This is interesting - and playful.

Very very good points. Facebook interacts with the real world and that's why it's disruptive.

Social Games also interact with the real world.

This is confusing.

STILL don't know what to call these frickin' things.

Good point here: how many games are designed where the team either wins or loses and there's no individual score possible.

Pandemic comes up everywhere and is worth investigating further.

I still don't know what to call these things. And this is bugging me and my IA efforts.

Are these propaganda? Are they *good* propaganda? Do you learn or do you get enculturatedely socialised? All this and more in next week's installment.

More on the intersection of games and journalism. I'd be curious to see how 'other' intersections might look. . .

There's *loads* of newsgames out there, once you start looking. Some are good, some not so good. I'll put a collection up on Gameify pretty soon - they're called newsgames by Ian Bogost, I think.