About
DC Dispatches is the current blog of Matthew Bradley. His personal blogging has limped-along, tripped and collapsed several times since 1999.
Matthew is a web developer at Edelman, after his former employer Grassroots Enterprise’s business was acquired by them. In his spare time he’s an independent new media helper in various capacities for documentary efforts, sometimes as a web developer, sometimes as a photographer. He is not a designer, nor is he the NHL hockey player with the same name.
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 in its time. 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 supported Sam Husseini’s work on The Washington Stakeout.
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). Most of this happened via Machination.org, a previous incarnation of this blog.