Matthew Haughey

Matthew Haughey (born October 10 1972) is an American programmer, web designer, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as mathowie.

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

In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a prominent community weblog and internet forum, which he manages with co-moderator Jessamyn West. Haughey was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill's Content, illustrating the cover story "Human Portals". MetaFilter was a project he started when there were only "30 or so" blogs, and he felt that finding "one or two links a day" personally was not enough content, but a blog with four or five people could do better.

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.

Publications

Co-author, Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places, Waite Group Press (2001). ISBN 0735710759 Co-author, We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs, Wiley (2002) ISBN 0-7645-4962-6 Co-author, Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself, Peer Information (2002). ISBN 1-904151-03-5. Co-author, We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture, Perseus Books Group, 2002 ISBN 0738207411

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