Review my site: BHeardUSA.com
pospischil: - Your design is a great start -- The guy holding the megaphone gets the point across very well.- Trends are a great idea, and showing them by area makes it a lot more powerful (for example, i'd love to see what people are saying about the election right now, here in south jersey).- My first question when visiting the site is -- How will the public people see my postcard?- My next question is -- why should I use this instead of twitter, where I can do things like @reply the public person.- The top message "send positive/negative postcards"...
conflicts with the bullet list of the things I can use the service for...- I'm not sure navigating between realtime and trends to set the geographic area of search is very clear to a user.  Not quite obvious enough- I think you can lean things out a bit -- do you really need a log in box taking up that much space on every screen?- Real time: the map is a neat attention grabber, and gets me interested a bit the first time visiting, but I'm not sure it would be as enticing on later views.  As mentioned above, I'd work on a more direct way to see trends in an area.Great start, hope this was helpful!