About
Machination.org has been the personal site of Matthew Bradley. The site has been reincarnated several times since 1999.
Matthew is a web developer, a new and independent media helper in various capacities, and a photographer. He is not a designer, nor is he the NHL hockey player or the journalist for the Christian Science Monitor.
His photography has been used in a variety of community, academic and political publications as well as has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine and, in association with other work, on the front page of the Washington Post Metro section.
In the past he learned some basic radio skills and contributed on a volunteer and freelance basis to Pacifica’s WPFW, Free Speech Radio News, and on a couple of occasions, Democracy Now!. For a time he contributed skills, and sometimes content, to Indymedia and still believes in the principles that attracted him to the Indymedia community, which was at the vanguard of citizen journalism and self-publishing on the web. He also had a technical role with the Nader for President 2004 campaign. Previous to that he also worked for the Institute for Public Accuracy, helping produce press releases and fact sheets. Since then, as a side project, he spent many weekends over the course of a year helping Sam Husseini work on The Washington Stakeout. That project went dormant and evolved into other things.
He’s had a few good hits from airing an idea on BoingBoing in reaction Bill Gates’ comment that the Creative Commons was communism (helping set off and contributing to a “Creative Commies” meme) to blogging about the telecom industry’s anti-net neutrality DontRegulate.org site (capturing the attention of many, including Craig Newmark of Craigslist).
Posts like those might be lost for the moment, but briefly gave Machination.org a substantial audience with effects lasting to this day (barely). We hope to recover and back-date many key old posts over time, and also hope to have the similar or better editorial insight in the future and to take the opportunity to share at the right time.