It may seem quiet on the Zeitgeistian front, but we're making a lot of progress behind the scenes.

Along with fixing various types of bugs that you'd expect to encounter in an alpha release, we're working on a couple of larger projects:

1. Improving our back-end administration interface. This will allow us to start dramatically improving the content associated with each participant's entry. Specifically, we can start normalizing topic entries (now underway) and deleting false hits from Amazon (currently, there's a good chance that Amazon will say you're an author, even if you're not).
2. Enabling participants to enter and manage their own information more easily. This is a big one. Once we can deep-six SurveyMonkey as our data-entry interface, we can do all sorts of nice things, like data validation and allowing participants to update their answers.

These features should start appearing in about a month. At that point, we'll begin adding new participants again.

Hate waiting? Want more UX goodness? Kill the next few weeks perusing the wonderful interviews with UX people that Tamara Adlin is publishing over at the UX Pioneers site.