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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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Author Archives: Reverend
Down South New Zealand
Picking up on my previous post about our vacation to New Zealand, I wanted to finish up my reflections on this amazing trip with some images and brief thoughts on the South Island. Firstly, everyone we talked to when preparing … Continue reading
Notes on WHM: Converting Addon Domain to cPanel Account
I recently learned about a feature of WHM (the system used to manage a cPanel server) that has been quite useful. WHM has a tool that allows you to convert an Addon domain from an existing cPanel account into its own … Continue reading
Dead Moocmen Live
Bryan Mathers is a genius. Have I said that already?
A Small Taste of New Zealand’s North Island
I try not to take for granted how lucky I have been over the last 10 years. And when I specify the last decade I mean, in particular, my “career” as a presenter. I’ve been pretty consistently presenting about my work on … Continue reading
THETA 2017 Post Mortem
It’s a couple of weeks now since I was at THETA 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand and I am almost fully adjusted before my next trip in a week. It’s been quite the year for travel so far, after the … Continue reading
CoWork Fredericksburg
CoWork Fredericksburg is officially up and running now, and I even have a tweet to prove it! https://twitter.com/coworkfxbg/status/867033797111549953 This is a big day for us at Reclaim Hosting given two short years ago Tim Owens and I were working in … Continue reading
The Dead Moocmen at Domains 17
It’s all but official, on the night of Monday, June 5th a 9:30 PM, the Dead Moocmen will be performing live as part of the Domains 17 conference. I would like to say it was smooth process get them to … Continue reading
Take a hike, bava!
Selfie on the way up to the Bindesi For the last three or four months I’ve been trying to get with the Trento program, in other words learning to embrace the verticality of my environs. For the first year or … Continue reading
We’ve been busy at Reclaim Hosting
Lauren wrote a nice breakdown of the various projects we’ve been working on at Reclaim Hosting over the last 6 months. It’s cool to see them all detailed in one place, the big three are as follows: CoWork – we took … Continue reading
The Twenty Days of Turin
On the long journey to New Zealand I detailed in my previous post, I had some time to read a novel given there was no internet for most of the 36 hour journey. I’ve been looking forward to reading Giorgio De … Continue reading