Matthew Haughey

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. Haughey grew up in Placentia, California. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.S. and M.S. in environmental science. Haughey designed his first website in 1995. From 1997 to 2000, Haughey was a webmaster and programmer for Social Scie... more

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. Haughey grew up in Placentia, California. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.S. and M.S. in environmental science. 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. In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a prominent community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed himself using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server, and which he manages with co-moderators Jessamyn West (2005-), Josh Millard (2007- ), and Ricardo Vacapinta (2008-... less