by user JMK444 Filed under not so humorous ironies is this story broken by the Village Voice, of all sources: Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits. 'The news didn't make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper's annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused looks when Janet Robinson, the company's president and CEO, uttered the phrase "data mining." Wasn't that the nefari