A few weeks ago, I got an email from a reporter at the Willamette Week, asking if I was open to an interview before MetaFilter's 12 anniversary and I said sure. Then I got a note that a photographer would pop in during our interview and take a few shots. Then hey, you're done and …
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Meta-Who?
Treme, the HBO show by David Simon (of The Wire fame) is a show set in post-Katrina New Orleans and follows the world of musicians, chefs, and residents. Sunday night, the third episode "On Your Way Down" had this exchange where a jazz musician hip to the internet tries to convince a record exec to …
My SXSW 2011 talk on lessons from 11 years of community
Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) from Matt Haughey on Vimeo. This past Saturday, I gave a talk at SXSW Interactive on some lessons in moderation and growing a community that was sparsely attended (I was half a mile away in one of the outlying hotels, no biggie — it …
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North America – Western Europe equivalent latitude maps
When I first moved to Oregon I often heard local Pinot Noir wineries proclaim “we’re at the same latitude as the best wine regions in France! That’s why our wine is great here too!” Every weekend in the Fall, I get muddy in local bike races then go home to watch similar races taking place …
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2010 at MetaFilter: that’s a lot of stats
I've been doing MetaFilter for over 11 years now, and I'm almost always proud to share that with new people I meet that ask me what I do for a living. I get to live out my dream of goofing off on the internet and running websites and it somehow pays the bills. It took …
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Milestone: five years without a day job
A little over five years ago, I gave my notice to my last employer, Creative Commons. I'd been waiting for the day for over a year, but even with outside income from blogging it was pretty crazy at the time. We had just bought a new house and we had a six month old baby, …
I didn’t feel like copy/pasting
I made what would have been today's blog post over on MetaFilter, about Phil Gyford's fun project Pretend Office.
Elvis Costello: adenoidal
I want to share a small snippet from the latest MetaFilter Podcast. To anyone but the most hardcore users of MetaFilter, the podcast I do with the other moderators of the site (Jessamyn and Josh) is oddly impenetrable to most. We talk about the things we see on the screen, so it makes it difficult …
The unfortunate mainstreaming of internet douchebaggery
Today someone spammed MetaFilter on behalf of Conde Nast publications, and it pissed me off way more than the average occasional spammy self-promoter on MeFi. We have a strict rule at MeFi (since there's no editorial vetting upfront) that you can't post about your own stuff, you have to make posts to interesting random stuff …
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“when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you…”
Here in Portland, Maine there are plenty of people still using derailleurs, but very few people wear helmets. The only consistently helmeted group are the road bikers/spandex pod people; when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you perhaps it’s time for some self-reflection. — selfnoise on “What’s up with all the …
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A Whole Lotta Nothing 