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Social bookmarking explained with hand gestures, puppetry

Some Web 2.0 concepts don't make sense to people unless you break it down to them in ways they can understand. We do our best with our Newbie Guides for things like Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader, and Facebook. Along similar lines comes a video about Del.icio.us, and social bookmarking in general, from Common Craft--a consulting company that does Web videos. This may be viral marketing, but it's very well executed and a joy to watch. I'd hire these guys for my start-up video.

[via Digital Inspiration and DownloadSquad]

A very meta Maker Faire moment

Nifer Fahrion is someone who doesn't mess around when she's interested in something.

Rather, she'll put her heart and soul into what she's doing, and she is well known in the San Francisco alternative arts scene for her involvement with one crazy, wonderful activity after another.

Last year, at Maker Faire 2006, Fahrion took a felting class, that is, lessons on how to craft things out of felt.

She fell in love with the medium.

In the succeeding months, Fahrion took to playing with felt on her own, and developed enough of a proficiency with the … Read more