Off to cover the making of Maker Faire Austin

LOS ANGELES--I was sitting in line waiting to get on my connecting flight to Austin, Texas, where I'm going to cover the behind-the-scenes activity at Maker Faire, when guess who walked up to join the queue?

It was none other than Maker Faire co-organizer and Boing Boing co-editor Mark Frauenfelder, also off to Austin for the event.

I love how small the world can be sometimes.

Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between. E-mail Daniel.

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