Matthew Haughey

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Matt Haughey

Matt Haughey self-portrait
Born October 10, 1972
Other names mathowie
Occupation programmer, blogger
Website http://www.haughey.com

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

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[edit] Life and career

Haughey grew up in Placentia, California.[1] He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.S. and M.S. in environmental science.[2]

Haughey designed his first website in 1995. From 1997 to 2000, Haughey was a webmaster and programmer for Social Sciences Computing at UCLA. From 2000 to 2001, Haughey moved to the Bay Area and worked for Pyra Labs where he helped code early versions of Blogger. In 2001, he briefly worked for KnowNow and Bitzi. From 2002 to 2005, Haughey was creative director at Creative Commons.[2] Haughey now manages his websites fulltime.

In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a prominent community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed himself using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server[3], and which he manages with co-moderator Jessamyn West (2005-)[3]. Haughey was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill's Content, illustrating the cover story "Human Portals".[4] 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.[5] Haughey had to contribute many of the early posts until "a few hundred people showed up and we had something good."[6] MetaFilter has since been widely recognized as "one of the web's most successful communities".[3] Haughey credits the site's "strong sense of community" for its success, unlike websites that offer social incentives such as karma.[6] Today, Haughey is recognized as a leading expert on online communities.[7]

Haughey has a personal weblog called A Whole Lotta Nothing and a photoblog titled Ten Years of My Life, in which he records daily photographs, many of himself. Ten Years was named 3rd-best photo blog by Forbes in 2004.[8][9] On his personal blog, he was noted for starting an internet meme when he annotated Google Maps images of his hometown.[10] He has helped build MetaFilter workalikes such as SportsFilter and helped instigate the5k.org.

Haughey has also ventured into niche blogging; his PVRBlog (personal video recorder blog), which he started in 2004, gained attention as the site that first published complaints over copyright protection on TiVo systems.[11] It was also recognized as an early adopter of Google AdSense text advertising, which according to Haughey allowed him to make enough income to cover his mortgage.[12]

Haughey has been technical editor on several programming books, and has contributed chapters to several books on blogging and online community. Since 2005, Haughey has written a number of pieces for The New York Times CIRCUITS section.

Haughey lives in McMinnville, Oregon with his wife Kay and their daughter Fiona (who has also been the subject of a photoblog, fiona.haughey.com).

[edit] 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
  • Co-author, Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech), Wiley (2005) ISBN 076457499X

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Matt Haughey. A Whole Lotta Nothing About page. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Matthew A. Haughey. Resume. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Noor Ali-Hasan. MetaFilter: An Analysis of a Community Weblog. University of Michigan School of Information. Retrieved on March 6, 2007. This paper was completed by Hasan, a Master's of Science candidate, for a graduate class in e-communities.[1]
  4. ^ May 2001 Table of Contents. Brill's Content. Retrieved on March 4, 2007.
  5. ^ Austin Bunn. "Human Portals", Brill's Content, May 2001. Retrieved on March 4, 2007.
  6. ^ a b Mark Glaser. "Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free", MediaShift (Public Broadcasting System), March 31, 2006. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
  7. ^ Steve Woodward. "It's an Apple town right to the core", The Oregonian, February 3, 2007. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
  8. ^ Penelope Patsuris. "Best Photo Blogs", Forbes, February 10, 2004. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
  9. ^ Ten Years of My Life slide. Forbes. Retrieved on March 7, 2007.
  10. ^ "Google maps give fresh perspective", BBC News Online, April 17, 2005. Retrieved on March 6, 2007.
  11. ^ Greg Sandoval. "TiVo users fear recording restrictions", Associated Press, September 22, 2005. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
  12. ^ Jonathan Thaw. "Google's Profit Probably Surged Sixfold on Advertising Increase", Bloomberg, February 1, 2005. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.

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