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“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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Alta Via Day 1 or, If You Really Loved Me You Would Bring Me Edelweiss
So, I’m blogging from my phone because for the first time in about 15 years I left my laptop at home. I’ll be in the mountains for the next 5 days hiking the Dolomites. An upside of not having a … Continue reading
VHStival at Video Vortex: It’s Happening!
Yesterday I locked into for a trip back to beautiful to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the 3-day film festival at their local Alamo Drafthouse’s VHStival. I was trying to slow down the travel, but when I saw the insane … Continue reading
Happy 6th Reclaim
Lauren reminded us this morning that today is officially the day Reclaim got started back in 2013. And with some quick math that makes us 6 years old. That is pretty damn exciting, as my new favorite GIF on the … Continue reading
Look around you Tessy
Dad and Tess at a diner in Wantagh I was going to write a long post about my impressions of being back on Long Island last month. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with that fish-shaped isola since I left in … Continue reading
ALT Takes North America
Photo credit: “The many faces of Martin Hawksey – Domains19” by Tom Woodward I still have a lot to blog about Domains19, but I have made a significant dent in my blog to-do list since finishing my travels, and tomorrow … Continue reading
The Year Reclaim Hosting Grew Up
We just passed the half-way mark for 2019 and Reclaim has already accomplished most of the big items on its to-do list—which feels good. Our primary focus this year was pretty clear from the outset, hire more support staff to … Continue reading
Reclaiming Wake Forest
I’ve been traveling pretty consistently to colleges, universities, and conferences talking WordPress, WordPress Multiuser (than multisite), ds106, and Domains of One’s Own for around 13 or 14 years now. When I visited Wake Forest University soon after Domains19 last month … Continue reading
Video Vortex
One of the most serendipitous occurrences of Domains19 was running into Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks fame who is a media archivist with a stunning collection of 24,000 16mm films. Skid joined a friend of his from college to the … Continue reading
Retrofitting Popeye for the Web
When I was stateside last month Tim was talking to me about a couple of his arcade game projects—he is always working on something cool. The one I won’t talk about here is pretty wild, it basically allows you to … Continue reading
The Art of Domains19
Day 2 of #domains19 and @ryanseslow’s work still remains an inspiring, challenging, creative force in Gallery 3. pic.twitter.com/f3nXrH8fHs — DOMAINS 19 (@DomainsConf) June 11, 2019 There was a lot to love about Domains19, and I’m just starting to get my … Continue reading