MX: Newsletter rough draft

For my 'final' considerations, i have chosen the aesthetic of one of my previous sketches, but added more the functionality of some of the others. A major component of this newsletter is in giving the user the ability to form a list of their own tags, and rate them according to the person's own significance. It can be updated on the fly according to your mood, or changing cultural interests.

My newsletter (Personal News Feed) will assimilate the news for the day (constantly updating) and by using their tags, will give each story a rating according to the user's tag list hierarchy. Posts/stories are rated, and are displayed story by story, giving the appropriate ratings respectively, as well as by date: giving the user the ability to gauge the "importance" of the news, per their interests.

when the user chooses a story to read, they are presented with a brief paragraph from that story. There will be a dropdown menu of sorts that will allow the user to visually scroll through the top tags from the story, and select one that grabs their interest. when they do so, the paragraph displayed will quickly change to reflect the passage where the tag they selected is located, giving the user more control over how their results are displayed, and letting them 'skim' their results not only visually, but efficiently as well. From that same dropdown menu, the user will have the ability to share the article with a variety of web 2.0 sources like digg or blogger.