Writing

• Mar 31, 2026 A Conversation with Marc Canter, Part I: "I took the 90's off..."

  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.

• Mar 31, 2026 A Conversation with Marc Canter, Part II: "I took the 90's off..."

  The conclusion of my 2003 email interview with Marc Canter — on open standards, what Microsoft would do next, and why blogging mattered.

• Mar 31, 2026 Breaking Down Peter Chernin's 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.

• Mar 31, 2026 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.

• Mar 31, 2026 Morimoto's: 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.

• Mar 31, 2026 Religion vs. faith

  Some atypically public musings on my religious belief

• Mar 15, 2026 The Night We Put Television on the Internet

  In 1996, our team at CNN Interactive produced the first commercial internet video webcast. Here's what that felt like.

• Mar 14, 2026 AI Is Turning Culture Into Grey Goo

  The grey goo hypothesis for AI-generated culture — and why the farmers market might be the model for what comes next.

• Mar 13, 2026 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.