We were assigned to write a 500-word story for YourHub , and post it on Friday the 29th. Unfortunately, as some of my classmates and I discovered, YourHub is a bit unreliable. I originally tried to post my story on Thursday night, but there was an error when I selected the Boulder YourHub. Then, before class on Friday, several of us were unable to login to the site.
I looked up information on YourHub, and wikipedia.com says it was started by the Rocky Mountain News in 2005. Three years later, I'm wondering if maintenance to the site is down because the popularity of using a community website like YourHub has waned. There are definitely other websites people can go to to post stories, pictures and news, like Facebook, MySpace, or for some purposes, even Craigslist. Citizen journalism doesn't seem like it will be going away anytime soon, but it is interesting to note that there may be more reliable, and more read sources on the Internet than YourHub...so if people really want their voices heard, they may consider posting or blogging elsewhere.
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