You can check your balance by sending 1 Pocket Token to anyone, and you will get a reply with the details.

I do not have any connections with @biophil, but I feel he is easy to contact and if you have any suggestions or questions you can just comment on any of his posts.

I saw a post some time back, and it said that soon Pocket tokens might be available on Bitshares soon, but do not know when. I hope that will be soon enough.

I also agree that media can make use of a token such as Steem and make money instead of selling ad space and subscription. Many cryptocurrency startups are trying to do the same, there is Lunyr, Authorship coin, Akasha, ADZbuzz and many others working on similar platforms but none has been successful.

All that I can say now is that this is just the beginning, we need to wait actually to see the benefits of the decentralized system.