My name is Matthew Baldwin, and I've been writing on the web for two dang decades.
My first website, launched in 1999 and billed as a board game "e-zine" (yikes), was full of tabletop reviews and questionable fonts. Here it is on the Wayback Machine.
In 2001 I started a weblog called defective yeti, making me a first-generation blogger. Ah, the heady days of perpetually reinstalling Movable Type and having no idea how to monetize. Here are my game-related posts.
In 2009 I organized Infinite Summer, during which I somehow convinced all 72 people on the Internet to read the 1000+ page novel Infinite Jest. Here's the Wikipedia page; here's an interview in the Los Angeles Times.
I was active in the Seattle storytelling scene, especially A Guide to Visitors. In 2011 I traveled to Portland for Back Fence PDX, where I told a crowd of 800 about the various maladies I endured as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
In 2013 I spent a month writing about my son, who has autism, at A Month of Son.
In 2015 I gave a presentation at PAX WEST entitled "The Art and Science of Teaching Board Games", where I distilled my decades of experience guiding people through the morass of Cosmic Encounter rules into a 40 minute talk. In 2016 I gave the exact same talk a second time, because I am hella lazy.
In August of 2020 my talk "Read the Rules: What Technical Writers can Learn From Board Game Design" was featured at Write the Docs PDX. My slides and a video of the presentation are available here.
I was pretty active on Twitter until I decided it was a toxic cesspool and disabled my account. Then I had second throughts, tried to reenable my account, and discovered that it had somehow gotten suspended. NOOOO MY PRECIOUS TWEETS!! It's as if 20000 pithy and misspelled observations cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.