Yes, all the text in blockquote comes directly from their site. Perhaps they'll be ironing out those, er, kinks as they make the thing ready for public viewing (I get the impression they don't mean it to be very public now, their twitter account is still completely empty. If this were meant to be used already, they'd have been plugging it like they plug all the rest). Thanks for the confirmation about WP features!

Ah, but have you hit 250 writers by your lonesome self? "The first 250 stories are free. For each additional 25o writers, it’s just $25 a year."