Host: With me today is technology observer Jonah Burrell, who's just published an incisive essay on the heretofore-unknown phenomenon of "hashtag balkanization" on Twitter.
Host: It could be majorly impacting social discourse, and affecting everything from politics to education. Here to tell us more is Jonah Burrell.
Host: Jonah, please explain to us: what is hashtag balkanization?
Jonah: It's nothing. I made it up.
Jonah: I wanted to see if people would buy a "phenomenon" based entirely on persuasively-worded claims and selective reading of incomplete data, and whether reporting organizations desperate to leap on tech trends would accept it uncritically.
Jonah: And now I'm here. It worked. That's all.
Jonah: Thanks for having me!
Jonah: I enjoyed the fruit in the green room.
Host: So if I understand correctly...
Host: You trolled us?
Jonah: Ha ha ha! Trolling doesn't exist either.
Jonah: It's just called being a dick.
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you can tell this comic is fiction because he didn't go on to write a book about his discovery and crown himself a 'social media guru'
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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