Product leader. Engineer at heart. Enthusiastic DJ for the afterparty.https://jonathan-peterson.com/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/blog-history/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/blog-history/A history of my web presence from hand-coded HTML in the 90s through Movable Type, WordPress, and whatever this is nowTue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/history-of-this-site/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/history-of-this-site/A colophon of tools tried and iterations in building out jonathan-peterson.comTue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/dj/gods-lonely-man/https://jonathan-peterson.com/dj/gods-lonely-man/Iggy has done duets with a batch of awesome women over the years.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/dj/ca7riel-paco-amoroso-free-spirits/https://jonathan-peterson.com/dj/ca7riel-paco-amoroso-free-spirits/This dropped yesterday - great listen for the 1st day of springFri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/website-charter/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/website-charter/The original charter for this site: audiences, tone, information architecture, and content principles.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/professional-history/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/professional-history/Career history from CD-ROM and early internet video through programmatic advertising, fintech, and AI governance.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/grey-goo-of-culture/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/grey-goo-of-culture/The grey goo hypothesis for AI-generated culture — and why the farmers market might be the model for what comes next.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/i-like-to-make-cool-things/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/i-like-to-make-cool-things/What my CNN Interactive interview taught me about what actually drives me — and how the answer has changed over thirty years.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/religion-vs-faith/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/religion-vs-faith/Some atypically public musings on my religious beliefSat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/marc-canter-conversation-part-1/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/marc-canter-conversation-part-1/In early 2003 I exchanged a week's worth of emails with Marc Canter — founder of MacroMind/Macromedia — about multimedia, the death of interactive TV, and what was then a brand-new thing called blogging.Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/marc-canter-conversation-part-2/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/marc-canter-conversation-part-2/The conclusion of my 2003 email interview with Marc Canter — on open standards, what Microsoft would do next, and why blogging mattered.Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/breaking-down-peter-chernins-comdex-keynote/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/breaking-down-peter-chernins-comdex-keynote/In 2002 I spent a weekend annotating Peter Chernin's Comdex keynote speech line by line. Big Content's arguments against digital rights haven't aged well.Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/morimotos-kicking-it-iron-chef-stylie/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/morimotos-kicking-it-iron-chef-stylie/A dinner at Morimoto's in Philadelphia, December 2001 — the restaurant, the chef, and a seven-course omakase that held up to the Iron Chef mythology.Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/internet-in-evolution-the-medianet/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/internet-in-evolution-the-medianet/Written in August 2001 as the start of a book proposal — a framework for thinking about the coming collision between consumers, publishers, and governments over broadband media.Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMThttps://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/internet-on-television/https://jonathan-peterson.com/writing/internet-on-television/In 1996, our team at CNN Interactive produced the first commercial internet video webcast. Here's what that felt like.Thu, 01 Aug 1996 00:00:00 GMT