They also tend to word much of their social outreach in ways that imply they are releasing it, not the community. I know they have some talented people who work hard on core, but their marketing is pretty slimy and purposely misleading in my opinion.
well I don't have anything to say regarding the marketing group, but Ben and Bert are legit. the contributions to node-inspector are great and the scaling work is much appreciated.
For _official_ messaging around Node.js, you should definitely be looking at http://nodejs.org/ and http://blog.nodejs.org/ instead!