I've had the same feelings. I watch the press conferances, either on
NASA TV or the WWW version of that, and the few related news articles
and web sites seem to have nothing more than is mentioned in the
conferances (which is sorely limited -- the press pool only has time
to ask a few good questions and they get fewer good answers). The
only other source of news is the images at the "marsrovers" site. I'd
like to see some blogs or informal articles by project personnel, but
I suspect that there's a gag order preventing that. It would be nice
to get a better feel for what people are doing and why progress seems
so slow. And how decisions are made. And I'd like to see project
documents and org charts and...