diff --git a/docs/manual/basics-bus.xml b/docs/manual/basics-bus.xml
index 46e037a381..d040c8dcbd 100644
--- a/docs/manual/basics-bus.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/basics-bus.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <title>Bus</title>
   <para>
     A bus is a simple system that takes care of forwarding messages from
-    the pipeline threads to an application in its own thread context. The
+    the streaming threads to an application in its own thread context. The
     advantage of a bus is that an application does not need to be
     thread-aware in order to use &GStreamer;, even though &GStreamer;
     itself is heavily threaded.
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ g_signal_connect (bus, "message::eos", G_CALLBACK (cb_message_eos), NULL);
           manually extract the progress (in percent) from the message by
           extracting the <quote>buffer-percent</quote> property from the
           structure returned by <function>gst_message_get_structure
-          ()</function>.
+            ()</function>. See also <xref linkend="chapter-buffering"/>.
         </para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
diff --git a/docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml b/docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml
index 1e40c97983..38329e8cd6 100644
--- a/docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/intro-gstreamer.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
         <listitem><para>a plugin architecture</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>a pipeline architecture</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>a mechanism for media type handling/negotiation</para></listitem>
-        <listitem><para>over 150 plug-ins</para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para>a mechanism for synchronization</para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para>over 250 plug-ins providing more than 1000 elements</para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>a set of tools</para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </para>