Author: Jonathan Corley
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Making Canyon Grooves
I am genuinely excited to share what I just built. Canyon Groove plays the actual topography of a canyon as generative music, and it only took me two nights to build. Earlier this year, in March, I was scrolling through Reddit and a photograph stopped me and made me think. It was a close-up, magnified…
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The Week Between Episodes
My friend Jay and I catch up every month or so on Thursday night video calls, which is Friday morning where he is, in Australia. This week Jay said the timing is convenient because his weekly Claude Code allowance resets on Friday afternoons, so Friday morning is a stretch of his week when he’s out…
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The Network Is Watching
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology recently used ordinary Wi-Fi routers to identify individual people walking through a room using a new system called BFId. In a study of 197 participants, it identified people with accuracy running up to 99.5%, across different walking styles and viewing angles. There’s no camera, no mobile app, and no…
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Introducing The Catalog
A weekly shortlist for people trying to keep up I’ve publishing content here on PersonalizeCX for years about experience strategy, personalization, and lately about how AI is transforming both. I am excited to announce that I started writing a weekly newsletter called The Catalog, and the first issue went out today. These days it feels…
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Before the Journey Begins
CAREER UPDATE July 2026 was my last month working at Sitecore. After nine years of working for the world’s leading digital experience platform, I was laid off, along with my entire global team, in a wide range of cuts across multiple departments. Many of those impacted were strong performers actively innovating and adding value to…
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The World Cup Is Coming to Atlanta. What Happens to Hotels After It Leaves?
This summer, Atlanta will host 8 FIFA World Cup matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, including a semifinal on July 15. Spain, Morocco, South Africa, and others will play in front of 75,000 fans per match across 5 weeks of group stage and knockout play. Atlanta is about to experience the largest sustained tourism event since the…
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Long Beaks in the Marsh
I am back in the UK this week to facilitate workshops for two large enterprise brands, based in Folkstone and Cardiff, helping their digital marketing teams begin building a roadmap of experience strategy use cases and initiatives, and exploring how their content operations might soon evolve and adapt to the latest capabilities of AI. On…
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50 Resources for Sitecore Marketers and Digital Experience Strategists
I’m kicking off 2026 with a fresh list of reading and watching for Sitecore marketers and digital experience strategists, pulled entirely from resources published last year. It’s become a quiet New Year’s ritual for me, a chance to step back, take stock of what shifted, review the ideas and insights that stuck with me, and…
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Preparing for Zero-click Search: Emerging AEO and GEO Best Practices
How do you optimize content so it gets cited in generative AI and LLM-based search or answer engines? Over 50% of Google searches are now zero-click, where AI engines generate answers to queries or prompts and users never actually click links to the outside web, resulting in a collapse in organic website traffic. Their analysis…
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Exploring New Capabilities of Sitecore Stream
Marketing teams don’t need more prompts. Marketers need engaging brand content that drives dependable outcomes. AI is beginning to reshape how a marketing team works, and Sitecore is rolling out powerful new generative AI capabilities in rapid succession. In Sitecore’s June 2025 product launch, Sitecore’s Chief Product Officer Roger Connelly described an “open agentic web where…