{"id":1113,"date":"2012-11-15T16:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2012-11-15T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T00:12:30","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e19-small-town-cop-with-matt-haughey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E19: Small Town Cop with Matt Haughey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1114\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"haughey\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/haughey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Portland&#8217;s Slabtown with <a href=\"http:\/\/a.wholelottanothing.org\/\">Matt Haughey<\/a>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">MetaFilter<\/a>, the most civilized community on the internet, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuelly.com\/\">Fuelly<\/a>, and creator of several other sites as well. They discuss his escape from San Francisco&#8217;s &#8220;goofball startup culture&#8221;; what it means for MetaFilter to be &#8220;civilized&#8221;; his desire not simply to create &#8220;a safe place for people to yell past each other&#8221;; the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/identity.html\">keeping personal identity out of debates<\/a>;\u00a0the strange backend provided by MetaFilter&#8217;s question-and-answer service <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/\">Ask MetaFilter<\/a>; the second-most popular Ask MetaFilter thread of all time, Colin&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/158740\/You-were-doing-it-wrong\">&#8220;What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you&#8217;ve been doing wrong all along?<\/a>&#8220;; the strange popularity of questions about how to talk to girls, relate humanity, and\/or live life, also known as the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fc02.deviantart.net\/fs71\/f\/2010\/239\/d\/f\/forever_alone_by_foreveraloneplz.png\">forever alone<\/a>&#8221; series; what it takes to become one of MetaFilter&#8217;s ten worst users, drunk on power or stupidity; the hyperarticulate sourness that makes bad comments on MetaFilter especially bad, and how it leads to users pre-emptively armor-plate their sentences; Portland as a setting for the simple life, but also the good one; advertising&#8217;s domination of internet business models, and the bite mobile browsing even now takes out of that; who&#8217;s actually clicking those ads that ostensibly support everything; the benefits of living down the long tail, and of executing difficult-to-describe ideas that are therefore difficult to replicate; where to shut yourself off from the net in Portland, be it on a bike or at a food cart; and how a Portlander can possibly react to a kid on a unicycle, in a Utilikilt, playing a bagpipe, topped with a Darth Vader helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e19-small-town-cop-with-matt-haughey\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e19-small-town-cop-with-matt-haughey\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Portland&#8217;s Slabtown with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, the most civilized community on the internet, co-founder of Fuelly, and creator of several other sites as well. 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