Yourhub.com

The website Yourhub.com is a place where members of a certain community can share news with one another. I used the community in New York since it was closest, and then the Niagara area since I wrote this paper about it two years ago and some reason whenever I see the name, I must check it out due to instinct. Hey, it says Buffalo though…I need a map, I think to know these places.
Anyway, I looked under the “Stories” tab and found exactly that, news stories that you probably would not find in papers due to how local they really are. For example, the top story was about a neighborhood watch group, and I can bet, that while it is a national thing, no one outside of that area really cares about that area’s neighborhood watch. Only that community would. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but honest. The stories though seem to be about events, which is oddly the next tab. It seems odd that you would need two separate sections for these. In fact, one story about the Niagara Falls YMCA Friday Fun Club appears in both.
The only distinction between the two sections appears to be the fact that the stories one has info about the events in a narrative style, but the events just throws a list of info out.
The blog section seems useless though since it’s the same thing as the stories section. I guess it allows the people to tell their tale, but the stories seem to be by the same people. Some do have an agenda though, so I will let it slide since I did find a YMCA story by a YMCA employee.
Comparing this with Blufftontoday.com I can find that this one is better in the blog/local aspect, but I did like the idea of a collected newspaper thing, which yourhub lacks. If yourhub got that, I would say it was the better of the two, but as of now, they both seem on par. Plus, you have to include that there seems a lack of audio/visual content.
The money for yourhub.com comes from the obviously labeled advertisements, but it is also a licensed product of the Denver Newspaper Agency so money must be coming from there as well, I assume.Comments work, so nice interactivity, but only if there is feedback from the writer as well.