Some responses to a couple of GNOME related diary entries...

Uraeus: I really appreciate the work you do with the GNOME Summaries. Your observation is right about journalists, sadly. The daily pressure for stories often wins out against a real concern for fact checking. For a fun read, check out Avabanana's corrections page. (Disclaimer, I'm a journalist myself. Of sorts, anyway...)

snorp: I do wonder if those 'users' currently making a noise about the file selector are in fact typical GNOME users at all. Also, we should never give what users ask for, give them what they need :) The sort of work you and hadess are doing is really useful. I find the flames around the file selector tiresome. It made me wish for moderation on gnomedesktop.org when I read that story.