If you have time to read up on the technicals, the following introductory paper (dubbed 'the yellow paper') is highly informative with regards to the technology and related work Ethereum is based upon: http://gavwood.com/Paper.pdf
The hiding of the reporter's email doesn't really work/is broken, since if you fill in data for the fields on the page, and then hit 'send' it takes you to your email client with the reporters email in the 'To' field.
Someone could just as easily fill the fields with junk just to get at reporters emails', I suggest implementing a character counter for the fields at the least to ensure content is being entered and not junk/useless data.
Nice! I'm just starting out as a softie too, also due to the economy, did you start out with the web too? What language, how long until you found the job that kickstarted your career?