The Your Hub Experience

Last week I posted a piece entitled "The Buzz on Campus" to Your Hub. At first I found the Your Hub experience to be rather easy. I registered online quickly and without any problems. I wrote up my piece at home and planned on typing onto Your Hub the next morning before class because my computer at home is not reliable.

When I got to class to post on Your Hub, I could not enter the site. The site home page has each visitor first select what city and state you are from so as to direct you to the stories and blogs that have been posted for your city. On the morning that I need to post on Your Hub, I kept getting a syntax error when I selected my state. So I tried to simply log in to my account. I kept trying to log in and an error message kept appearing that I had an incorrect password or username. I kept trying, thinking that maybe I had forgotten my password. But my fellow classmates were also experiencing this problem right before class started. We had put posting off until this day because we had assumed that the Your Hub site was reliable and accessible; however, it was not.

I was able to log on to Your Hub by nighttime and successfully post. By this time in the day it seemed as if they had worked out the kinks in the website because it was running more smoothly.

Overall, I found Your Hub to be interesting to look at citizen journalism. However, if it was not for a class assignment I don't think that I would ever post to Your Hub. I feel like it's not an environment for individual creativity, like a blog may be. It is coldly formatted with little an individual can do besides write and post pictures.