Matthew Haughey

Matt Haughey

Matthew Haughey (born October 10 1972) is the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as mathowie.

From 2000 to 2001 he was an employee of Pyra Labs and helped code early versions of Blogger. Until November 2005, Haughey was creative director at Creative Commons. Haughey now manages his websites fulltime.

His most important contribution is MetaFilter, a community he founded and manages with the help of Jessamyn West.

Haughey has a personal weblog called A Whole Lotta Nothing and a photoblog titled Ten Years of My Life. He has helped build MetaFilter workalikes such as SportsFilter and helped instigate the5k.org.

Beginning in 2004 his profitable niche weblog PVRBlog attracted press attention, gaining notoriety during a controversy over advertising on TiVo.

Haughey is a co-author of two books that were published in 2002, We Blog (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6) and Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself (ISBN 1-904151-03-5).

See also

• MetaFilter

External links

• MetaFilter
• A Whole Lotta Nothing
• Ten Years of My Life
• When you're at the helm of a shitstorm
• Blogging for Dollars - convinced many bloggers to add Google AdSense to their websites.
• Matt's Vox Blog