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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: July 2007
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Saturday the 14th
“Just when you thought it was safe to look at the calendar again!” Saturday the 14th (1981) was perhaps one of the worst films I saw as a 10 year old (and I saw many, many bad movies back then) … Continue reading
The Killers (1946): What’s the idea?
I posted a little while back about a few of my favorite noirs, and decided to re-visit one of the films from the list: The Killers (1946). I truly love this film, and on yet another go round I’m beginning … Continue reading
Underwhelmed by iTunes U
Used courtesy of -t- [formerly dtc] Can I just say how unimpressed I was with the demonstration of iTunes U we had yesterday. In short, iTunes U offers universities a free, mildly customizable space on the iTunes client that allows … Continue reading
Do the hustle: the pinnacle of instructional videos
This epitomizes everything an instructional training video should be: kinetic, flared, and headless. Rumor has it that Marky Mark spent countless hours watching this video while preparing for Boogie Nights. And now, for the low, low price of free you … Continue reading
Ubuntu graffiti on Brooklyn Bridge
Is this a sign for me that it’s time to jump ship? I know some other folks have begun the move, is it time to leave behind the hideous chic of MAC OS X once and for all? Image by … Continue reading
Semiologic Theme: WordPress as a CMS that much closer
Once again, Mario A. Nuñez-Molina is fueling this blog and I can’t thank him enough. He recently turned me on to the Semiologic theme for WordPress -designed by Denis de Bernardy- which really pushes the possibilities for thinking about a … Continue reading
darcynorman.net on an iPhone
Not sure if anyone has given you a snapshot of your blog on an iphone yet, D’Arcy -if not, here it is! And notice the required reading in the upper right-hand corner of this image.
The other reverend Jim…
Interesting how the reverend conflates radicalism, liberalism, leftists, and communism in his “God’s People” speech (disambiguation please!). More than that, it is frightening how his rhetoric seamlessly frames all these political positions as perversions that have come way too far … Continue reading
divShare plugin for WordPress and WPMu
Recently I have been corresponding with Mario A. Núñez Molina, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, who has been also working on integrating a WPMu blogging solution (RUM Edublogs) for the College of Arts and Sciences. … Continue reading