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Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology
press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology
press.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:44)

• Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the
  can, and Karen may be right.(01:15)
• Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently
  is akin to what href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1724027.html">Harry
  Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03)
• Karen mentioned the href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-Part-1-first-myth-about-debunking.html">Debunking
  Handbook that Germán
  Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30)
• Bradley mentioned the quote href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk">I do not think
  [that word] means what you think it means from href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)">The
  Princess Bride. (13:30)
• Karen mentioned the href="http://www.happybirthdaygnome.org/">GNOME 15 year Anniversary
  Site. (17:22)
• Bradley mentioned href="http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/">Dave
  Neary's GNOME census, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30)
• Bradley discussed href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel">Eazel, a company co-founded
  by Andy
  Hertzfeld. (23:03)
• Karen mentioned GNOME's Outreach Program for Women,
  in which Conservancy participates. (25:34)
• Karen mentioned href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-gnome-still-needed-1.html">an
  article that came out on the same day as this audcast. (30:30)
• Bradley mentioned that some research by evolutionary biologists
  suggests href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language#The_gossip_and_grooming_hypothesis">language
  may have developed for gossip (38:48). Bradley couldn't find
  evidence easily online for the 80% is gossip claim on the audcase, but
  did find an article href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/bonding.aspx">talking about 65%
  of human communication is gossip.
• Bradley mentioned the television series, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Animal_(TV_series)">The
  Human Animal. (39:17)
• Bradley mentioned a href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-August/078276.html">thread
  he recently posted in on the BusyBox mailing list. (50:32)
• Bradley mentioned that there are href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases">many
  cognitive psychological biases. (51:11)

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