13 Facts About Matthew Haughey

Matthew Haughey was born on October 10,1972 and is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger.

Matthew Haughey is best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is called mathowie.

Matthew Haughey moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 2000s, worked as an employee of Pyra Labs, and participated in the development of early versions of Blogger.

In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed his own using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server.

Matthew Haughey left the primary management and operation duties of Metafilter to long-time moderator Josh Millard.

Matthew Haughey was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill's Content, illustrating the cover story entitled "Human Portals".

Matthew Haughey concluded that a blog with four or five people could do better.

Matthew 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.

Matthew Haughey has helped build MetaFilter workalikes such as SportsFilter and helped instigate the5k.

Matthew Haughey has ventured into niche blogging; his PVRBlog, which he started in 2004, gained attention as the site that first published complaints over copyright protection on TiVo systems.

Matthew Haughey had guessed that the site would sell for about $8,500.

Matthew Haughey has been a technical editor of several programming books, and has contributed chapters to non-technical books in topic areas such as blogging and online community.

Since 2005, Matthew Haughey has written a number of pieces for The New York Times CIRCUITS section.