Matthew Haughey

, where he is known as mathowie .

From 2000 to 2001 he was an employee of Pyra Labs and helped code early versions of Blogger. Today he is creative director at Creative Commons.

His most important contribution is MetaFilter, a community he founded and continues to manage solo.

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 [http://www.sportsfilter.com/ SportsFilter] and helped instigate [http://www.the5k.org/ the5k.org].

Beginning in .

Haughey is a co-author of two books that were published in 2002, We Blog (ISBN 0764549626) and Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself (ISBN 1904151035).

In early May 2005, Matt and Kay Haughey moblogged the birth of their daughter Fiona semi-live on [http://fiona.haughey.com/ Not Without My Daughter].

=External links=

*[http://www.metafilter.com/ MetaFilter] *[http://a.wholelottanothing.org/ A Whole Lotta Nothing] *[http://tenyearsofmylife.com/ Ten Years of My Life] *[http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/11/behind_the_webs.html When you re at the helm of a shitstorm] *[http://fiona.haughey.com/ Not Without My Daughter]