The incentives of online attention

I started blogging way back in 2006, when I was also starting my career in computer programming, before I even had a job. I was posting mostly about technical programming issues, basically to prove my skills. In 2008 I joined Twitter, as it was still called, for a programming conference, C4 , organized by Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch, who has unfortunately disappeared from my online community. At the…