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Revision as of 18:35, 8 January 2006
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 continues to manage solo.
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 0764549626) and Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself (ISBN 1904151035).
In early May 2005, Matt and Kay Haughey moblogged the birth of their daughter Fiona semi-live on Not Without My Daughter.