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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.
I am Jim Groom
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare
David Wiley’s post about using WordPress.com as OpenCourseWare to republish a course of his has me excited. The site looks pretty damn sharp. Very clean and easy to scan, an excellent model for using these tools to create attractive, low-overhead … Continue reading
“Let’s Do Some Crimes” in Second Life
I have very little patience with Second Life. As I tweeted a few days ago, I find it conceptually rich and empirically vapid. And for the most part that hasn’t changed all that much over the last year and a … Continue reading
Upgrading to WPMu 1.3.3
Given that the most recent upgrade for WordPress Multi-User is a critical one, I decided to do the right thing this morning. I figured it might be useful for others to know that my personal version of WPMu (which has … Continue reading
Imagining Cyberinsfrastructure
As I settle in at the University of Richmond, I have immediately recognized what I love about what I do: meeting new people and figuring out where and how I can be of use. There are tons of good people … Continue reading
WordPress Anonymous
Direct from the MooseCamp 2008 Wiki I give you WordPress Anonymous. Here is the working description of a proposed MooseCamp session titled “WordPress Anonymous”: I would like to know if there is any interest in an intervention session titled WPA … Continue reading
Prologue Theme Major Hit (or is it Punch-Out?)
A strange thing happened to me today. I was playing around with the new Prologue theme for WordPress that acts in many ways like Twitter. I had already tested it on WordPress.com here, but I wanted to see if the … Continue reading
A SuperDuper! Hard Drive Backup
I have to give a shout-out to SuperDuper!, an application for creating a bootable backup of your Mac hard drive. Useful if your Mac goes south (and mine has three times in two years), and perfect for copying all my … Continue reading