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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
CONELRAD: an Online Mecca for Cold War Culture
I have been so industrious as of late 🙂 that I have almost forgotten to slow down a bit and have a little fun, this is a “b” blog after all. Well, some folks might define fun as sniffing glue … Continue reading
Librarians Rule! Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
My English 101 class spent the evening last night with Jack Bales, the Humanities librarian at UMW. Jack’s teaching style is wonderfully enthusiastic and rigorous. He worked us through the intricacies of database searching with dash and exactitude. He spent … Continue reading
Doing things with bbpress
I saw the most recent announcement from WordPress this morning regarding the latest, stable version of WPMU (ver. 1.0 -a milestone) and the integration of a phpbb forum with WordPress, known as bbpress. Both of these developments are really exciting … Continue reading
The Yahoo Time Capsule
Upon signing out of Fickr after uploading some images, I was presented with an advertisement for something called the Yahoo Time Capsule. See the ad below: My interest was piqued by the “Smithsonian Folkways Recordings” link as well as the … Continue reading
Doings things with Pachyderm 2.0.2
At Faculty Academy 2006 last Spring, Rachel Smith gave an excellent presentation on Pachyderm. Pachyderm is … … an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web … Continue reading
Open Source Templates
Thanks go to Dmitry Dulepov for bringing Andreas Viklund’s opens source templates to Typo3 (currently typo3 has extensions for Andreas01 & andreas09). I have been playing with andreas01 here if you want to take a look (it is still a … Continue reading
DAM that Typo3
I recently returned to an online exhibit I had worked on last Spring with John Pearce’s Museum lab class. Link. The site was running on Typo3 version 3.8, and I spent some time a few weeks ago updating it to … Continue reading
Exceeding CPU Limits with Bluehost
A few times over the last month I have exceeded the limits of the server CPU on Bluehost. Three of the four times I have gotten the message above (which suspends my entire account for at least a few minutes). … Continue reading