Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab in London

February 15, 2012 by thornet

Next up in the round of event recipes, Brett & I wrote up a **[Popcorn learning lab](http://michellethorne.cc/2012/02/howto-popcorn-learning-lab/).** Since publishing the [Popcorn hack jams](http://michellethorne.cc/2012/01/popcorn-hack-jams/) how-to, we’ve been in touch with [film festivals](http://www.hotdocs.ca/), [coder communities](http://codeforamerica.org/), and (http://www.leuphana.de/inkubator/digitale-medien/moving-image-lab.html) from all over about running events about Popcorn. ## Skill…

HowTo: Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab

February 15, 2012 by thornet

# Popcorn Learning Lab # A **Mozilla Popcorn Learning Lab** is an event to introduce developers and filmmakers to [Popcorn.js](http://mozillapopcorn.org/), an HTML5 javascript library that integrates the web into media production. Participants will **[create plugins](http://popcornjs.org/plugins), hack [templates](http://mozillapopcorn.org/maker/lib/userManual.html), and code a [demo](http://popcornjs.org/demos)** that easily remixes web…

Mozilla Event Menu: Testing Continues

February 10, 2012 by thornet

It’s been really helpful to hear feedback from colleagues & the community about the Mozilla Event Menu (see [Version 0.2](http://michellethorne.cc/2012/01/mozilla-event-menu-lite/)), and here’s a shoutout to Gianfranco for his thoughtful input & article about the menu [on Conference Basics](http://www.conferencebasics.com/2012/01/event-menu-mozilla/)! ## Version 0.3 ## Rolling in the…

Feature Requests for Webmakers

February 7, 2012 by thornet

As part of the on-going efforts to help webmakers the world over build & learn together, **we’re collecting specs for event infrastructure.** The [Mozilla event menu](http://michellethorne.cc/2012/01/mozilla-event-menu-lite/) is a piece of this, guiding community members to the event formats that best suit their needs and interests.…

Filter Failure

February 4, 2012 by thornet

>Clay Shirky suggests that there’s **no such thing as information overload, only filter failure.** This is a very modern response to an older question. Futurist Alvin Toffler warned us about information overload, popularizing the phrase. It’s an extension of the idea of sensory overload, the…