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Explaining My Updated Online News Consumption
I’ve tried using Tumblr a handful of times without much success in terms of publishing my own stuff. However after coming across Mashable’s post 12 Essential News Media Tumblrs You …
Gathering subjective news in a relevant way
News is a subjective term. What is important to one person might not be relevant to another. March Madness, Health Care Reform, local weather—one of those topics could be relevant …
Getting to the Pay Wall
There’s a lot of speculation about how some news sites will start charging for their online content, typically via a subscription service or metered content intake. It’s hard to say …
What News Sites Could Learn from TMZ, yes that TMZ…
I’ve read so many articles and blog posts over the last couple of years about how to save the newspaper that it’s hard to take any of them serious anymore …
Old News
Kind of a predictable conversation with Arianna Huffington and Mathias Dopfner At The Monaco Media Forum. Not much new insight though I’m not entirely convinced that relying on advertising is …
Double issue of Link Drop (8·14·09) & (8·21·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop was a week late and while I hate excuses there’s a pretty good one. Last weekend I was redesigning the format of Link Drop …
News on Banksy and Iran Elections
If you’ve been coming to my blog on a semi permanent basis you probably know that I’m the Design Director of Daylife. Daylife is an online news service that allows …
Link Drop (6·12·09)
It’s been a crazy blog week for me and because of that my Link Drop is three days overdue. The High Line opened which I was happy to experience first …
Link Drop (06·05·09)
This has been one of those strange weeks where everything on the outside looks the same, though on the inside there’s a lot going on. It’s been a cool week …
Link Drop (5·29·09)
I’m not entirely sure why but I’m pretty happy how this week turned out for Link Drop. Lots of Design process, typography, NYC, social and business stuff. Art doesn’t usually …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
