I tried to get involved in this early on, but I was quickly turned off by the way the project was being run: it felt like the founders were promising a vague end goal and trying to make too many groups of people happy.

http://groups.google.com/group/newslabs-qa/browse_thread/thr...

Kudos for writing all of this down, Paul. Next time, stick to your guns and do the simplest thing that works!