Need suggestions for online game

I tried to post this on the UA mailing list, but it won’t let me subscribe. Anyways, I’m new to UA but I have really been wanting to run some kind of UA game ever since I saw the street-level intro on the Atlas website. But since I don’t know anyone in the area who games, I started looking for an online game of UA. Unfortuately I haven’t been able to find any currently running ones yet. I thought about starting my own irc or play-by-post, but I felt uncomfortable running a game I’ve never run before in a format I’ve never used before, and that the players would probably be more experienced in than me. Then I had an idea of a way to run my own game that would be new to everyone.
The basic idea is a variant on a play-by-post game, but instead of just being a thread on a gaming site, the site looks like an online newspaper, with a supernatural/conspiracy angle, and the players are the reporters. The stories are the articles of the paper. It’s kind of a Freakylinks rip-off (if anyone watched that show), but I think it has real possibility to be very interesting. Obviously the players would be street-level, with the campaign hopefully moving towards global over time. To get the actions that wouldn’t normally appear in an article, I came up with the idea of the site having a “total disclosure” policy, where they reveal all the e-mails, phone calls, etc to the editor (my alter ego). Or maybe not actually putting these up on the site, but using the format of e-mails to the editor as the way the players communicate to me in-character. I’m not sure what would look right. It seems in order for things to move forward, I’d have to give more control to the players than I’ve seen in other play-by-posts, a little more like interactive storytelling. But I’m not sure how I should control situations where there is obviously an important roll, and therefore an unpredictable outcome, should occur. Trust the players, or have them send me an e-mail where I resolve the conflict. The best way to do this is the biggest problem I see with the idea (other than getting trustworthy, creative players). The other problem I see is getting the players to be able to interact with each other. I guess they could just send e-mails to each other, as well as to me for when they are separated, and one submission from when they were together. I haven’t decided if all the reporters should be from the same area of the country or not. Being that the paper is on the net, I’d think not, but it makes it harder to have character-character interaction.
I also have other ideas for the setting, like the players could send me a resume and a portfolio item to have me consider the characters, with the portfolio item being an article on their trigger event. And maybe giving the players an NPC photographer. Sort of like having your own Jimmy Olsen.
Anyways, I hope this is coherent and seems interesting. If you have any suggestions or if you’re interested in playing post them.