One thing to note is that the second item, Harold's Blog, is NOT talking about Next Island, and is NOT written by Harold Sipe, but is about PMOG, which is short for Passively Multiplayer Online Game, and was written by Justin Hall. The whole story, which the quote on the blog comes from, can be found here: A Story of GameLayers, Inc.
And we know Caitlin since she started as part-time QA tester half a year ago. I think it was in one of Meg's posts.