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Matthew Haughey

January 01, 1970

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.

Matt Haughey
Matt Haughey self-portrait
Born (1972-10-10) October 10, 1972 (age 51)
United States
Other namesmathowie
EducationUniversity of California, Riverside (BS, MS)
Occupation(s)Programmer, blogger
Websitea.wholelottanothing.org

Life and career edit

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. In 2000, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where, as an employee of Pyra Labs, he participated in the development of early versions of Blogger. In 2001, he worked briefly for KnowNow and Bitzi. Haughey then relocated to Portland, Oregon, and from 2002 to 2005 served as creative director at Creative Commons.[2]

In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed himself using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server.[3] In March 2015, Haughey announced he would be stepping down from day to day management of Metafilter[4] to take on a role as Senior Content Director at Slack,[5] leaving primary management and operation duties of Metafilter to long-time moderator Josh Millard. In July 2017, he transferred the ownership of Metafilter to Millard.[6]

Haughey was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill's Content, illustrating the cover story "Human Portals".[7] 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.[8] Haughey had to contribute many of the early posts until "a few hundred people showed up and we had something good."[9] MetaFilter has since been described 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.[9]

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.[10][11] On his personal blog, he was noted for starting an internet meme when he annotated Google Maps images of his hometown.[12] 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.[13] 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.[14] In December 2009, Haughey auctioned off PVRBlog on eBay.[15] Haughey had guessed that the site would sell for about $8,500, but after heavy bidding it eventually sold for $12,110[16] to brightfire.net of Austin, TX.[17]

Haughey has been a technical editor of several programming books, and has also contributed chapters to non-technical books in topic areas such as blogging and online community. Since 2005, Haughey has written a number of pieces for The New York Times CIRCUITS section.

In April 2007, Haughey launched the blog Fortuito.us in order to share his thoughts about supporting himself and his family through online projects.[citation needed]

On November 12, 2009 Haughey[18] posted to Twitter, "I passed out at home had a seizure, went to ER, did a cat scan and they found a growth. Awaiting surgery in the next week to remove it." Within hours[19] thousands of people responded with well wishes. Surgery was planned for the following day, but postponed at the last minute.[20] On December 29, 2009, Haughey announced that hormone therapy had shrunk the tumor to less than 50% its original size, and that prospects looked good for the tumor to shrink until "nearly disappearing".[21]

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).

Publications edit

  • Interviewed in Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places, Waite Group Press (2001). ISBN 0-7357-1075-9
  • 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 0-7382-0741-1
  • Co-author, Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech), Wiley (2005) ISBN 0-7645-7499-X

References edit

  1. ^ Matt Haughey. . Archived from the original on 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
  2. ^ a b Matthew A. Haughey. "Resume". Retrieved 2007-03-06.
  3. ^ a b Noor Ali-Hasan. (PDF). University of Michigan School of Information. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-28. Retrieved 2007-03-06. This paper was completed by Hasan, a Master's of Science candidate, for a graduate class in e-communities.[1]
  4. ^ Haughey, Matt. "Sixteen Years". MetaTalk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Metafilter Podcast 102: Retired". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ^ "mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex". MetaFilter. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  7. ^ . Brill's Content. Archived from the original on 2001-08-02. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
  8. ^ Austin Bunn (May 2001). . Brill's Content. Archived from the original on 2001-08-03. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
  9. ^ a b Mark Glaser (March 31, 2006). "Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free". MediaShift (Public Broadcasting Service). Retrieved 2007-03-07.
  10. ^ Penelope Patsuris (February 10, 2004). . Forbes. Archived from the original on April 2, 2004. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
  11. ^ . Forbes. Archived from the original on April 11, 2009. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
  12. ^ "Google maps give fresh perspective". BBC News Online. April 17, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
  13. ^ Greg Sandoval (September 22, 2005). "TiVo users fear recording restrictions". Associated Press. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  14. ^ Jonathan Thaw (February 1, 2005). "Google's Profit Probably Surged Sixfold on Advertising Increase". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
  15. ^ "Twitter". December 18, 2009.
  16. ^ "Twitter". December 18, 2009.
  17. ^ "eBay". December 18, 2009.
  18. ^ "Matt Haughey on Twitter". Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  19. ^ "Twitter. It's what's happening". Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  20. ^ "Adventures in brain tumors: part one of many". 14 November 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  21. ^ "Adventures in brain tumors: Hormone Medications FTW!". 29 December 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2017.

Further reading edit

  • Building an Online Community: Just Add Water. 2001 essay by Haughey in Digital Web.

External links edit

  • Official website  
  • Blogging for Dollars - convinced many bloggers to add Google AdSense to their websites.
  • Fortuito.us
  • Dan Benjamin's The Pipeline: Matt Haughey Interview
  • An interview with Matt Haughey on Notebook on Cities and Culture

January 01, 1970
matthew, haughey, born, october, 1972, american, programmer, designer, blogger, best, known, founder, community, weblog, metafilter, where, known, mathowie, matt, haugheymatt, haughey, self, portraitborn, 1972, october, 1972, united, statesother, namesmathowie. 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 Matt HaugheyMatt Haughey self portraitBorn 1972 10 10 October 10 1972 age 51 United StatesOther namesmathowieEducationUniversity of California Riverside BS MS Occupation s Programmer bloggerWebsitea wbr wholelottanothing wbr org Contents 1 Life and career 2 Publications 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksLife and career editHaughey 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 In 2000 he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where as an employee of Pyra Labs he participated in the development of early versions of Blogger In 2001 he worked briefly for KnowNow and Bitzi Haughey then relocated to Portland Oregon and from 2002 to 2005 served as creative director at Creative Commons 2 In 1999 Haughey launched MetaFilter a community weblog and internet forum which he programmed himself using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server 3 In March 2015 Haughey announced he would be stepping down from day to day management of Metafilter 4 to take on a role as Senior Content Director at Slack 5 leaving primary management and operation duties of Metafilter to long time moderator Josh Millard In July 2017 he transferred the ownership of Metafilter to Millard 6 Haughey was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill s Content illustrating the cover story Human Portals 7 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 8 Haughey had to contribute many of the early posts until a few hundred people showed up and we had something good 9 MetaFilter has since been described 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 9 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 10 11 On his personal blog he was noted for starting an internet meme when he annotated Google Maps images of his hometown 12 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 13 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 14 In December 2009 Haughey auctioned off PVRBlog on eBay 15 Haughey had guessed that the site would sell for about 8 500 but after heavy bidding it eventually sold for 12 110 16 to brightfire net of Austin TX 17 Haughey has been a technical editor of several programming books and has also contributed chapters to non technical books in topic areas such as blogging and online community Since 2005 Haughey has written a number of pieces for The New York Times CIRCUITS section In April 2007 Haughey launched the blog Fortuito us in order to share his thoughts about supporting himself and his family through online projects citation needed On November 12 2009 Haughey 18 posted to Twitter I passed out at home had a seizure went to ER did a cat scan and they found a growth Awaiting surgery in the next week to remove it Within hours 19 thousands of people responded with well wishes Surgery was planned for the following day but postponed at the last minute 20 On December 29 2009 Haughey announced that hormone therapy had shrunk the tumor to less than 50 its original size and that prospects looked good for the tumor to shrink until nearly disappearing 21 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 Publications editInterviewed in Design for Community The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places Waite Group Press 2001 ISBN 0 7357 1075 9 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 0 7382 0741 1 Co author Hacking Movable Type ExtremeTech Wiley 2005 ISBN 0 7645 7499 XReferences edit Matt Haughey A Whole Lotta Nothing About page Archived from the original on 2007 03 02 Retrieved 2007 03 07 a b Matthew A Haughey Resume Retrieved 2007 03 06 a b Noor Ali Hasan MetaFilter An Analysis of a Community Weblog PDF University of Michigan School of Information Archived from the original PDF on 2007 02 28 Retrieved 2007 03 06 This paper was completed by Hasan a Master s of Science candidate for a graduate class in e communities 1 Haughey Matt Sixteen Years MetaTalk Retrieved 7 March 2015 Metafilter Podcast 102 Retired Retrieved 7 March 2015 mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex MetaFilter 2017 07 31 Retrieved 6 August 2017 May 2001 Table of Contents Brill s Content Archived from the original on 2001 08 02 Retrieved 2007 03 04 Austin Bunn May 2001 Human Portals Brill s Content Archived from the original on 2001 08 03 Retrieved 2007 03 04 a b Mark Glaser March 31 2006 Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free MediaShift Public Broadcasting Service Retrieved 2007 03 07 Penelope Patsuris February 10 2004 Best Photo Blogs Forbes Archived from the original on April 2 2004 Retrieved 2007 03 07 Ten Years of My Life slide Forbes Archived from the original on April 11 2009 Retrieved 2007 03 07 Google maps give fresh perspective BBC News Online April 17 2005 Retrieved 2007 03 06 Greg Sandoval September 22 2005 TiVo users fear recording restrictions Associated Press Retrieved 2007 03 05 Jonathan Thaw February 1 2005 Google s Profit Probably Surged Sixfold on Advertising Increase Bloomberg Retrieved 2007 03 05 Twitter December 18 2009 Twitter December 18 2009 eBay December 18 2009 Matt Haughey on Twitter Retrieved 20 February 2017 Twitter It s what s happening Retrieved 20 February 2017 Adventures in brain tumors part one of many 14 November 2009 Retrieved 20 February 2017 Adventures in brain tumors Hormone Medications FTW 29 December 2009 Retrieved 20 February 2017 Further reading editBuilding an Online Community Just Add Water 2001 essay by Haughey in Digital Web External links editOfficial website nbsp Blogging for Dollars convinced many bloggers to add Google AdSense to their websites Fortuito us Dan Benjamin s The Pipeline Matt Haughey Interview An interview with Matt Haughey on Notebook on Cities and Culture Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Matthew Haughey amp oldid 1176458067, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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