mock-up

This Mock-up shows the relationship between its producers and readers by portraying the news of the local businesses ( the readers livelihoods) and givingthe readers a chance to comment on all of the articles, not just the ones that are about their business.
The menu allows the reader to choose the page he wishes to look at, read and comment on, therefore the reader is responding/ communicating with the producers of this article as well as the page. Which helps the producers to know what the readers are interested in, what they want to know more about and what they really are not interested in.
I think that knowing what the local communities are interested in is going to be one of the most helpful aspects of this site.
As for where we should focus efforts I would like to see a more uniform site with the bloggs articles alined from top to bottom of the second column, not all over the page.

mock-up

This Mock-up shows the relationship between its producers and readers by portraying the news of the local businesses ( the readers livelihoods) and givingthe readers a chance to comment on all of the articles, not just the ones that are about their business.
The menu allows the reader to choose the page he wishes to look at, read and comment on, therefore the reader is responding/ communicating with the producers of this article as well as the page. Which helps the producers to know what the readers are interested in, what they want to know more about and what they really are not interested in.
I think that knowing what the local communities are interested in is going to be one of the most helpful aspects of this site.
As for where we should focus efforts I would like to see a more uniform site with the bloggs articles alined from top to bottom of the second column, not all over the page.

A suny experience

I really liked seeing what the students at SUNY Cortland where studying. Reading their blogs was fun and I left comments on Aimee and jessica Marocco's bloggs