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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
Rainbow Dash on UMW Domains
I have another post I’ll be writing about this week in The Internet Course, but one of the gems early on has been finally getting to meet and work with Amber May given she’s in the course. I’ve known Amber’s work … Continue reading
Broadband: Make it a Commodity like…uh…a Pork Belly
I just finished watching the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it reinforces David Simon’s theory of America as Horror Show. What’s more, it was just a small taste of things to come in 2008 with … Continue reading
Over 1000 Reclaims
Today Reclaim Hosting went over the 1000 reclaimers mark. That’s right, in the last six months more than 1000 people choose to explore reclaiming their online presence through a system that Tim “the Wizard” Owens built into one hell of a … Continue reading
Fredx Coder Dojo
Yesterday, Tess, Miles, and I went to a free, three-hour event offered by the FredX Coder Dojo. The dojo seems to be born out of—or at least in the spirit of—the maker culture work George Meadows and Tim Owens have … Continue reading
David Simon on America as a Horror Show
If I dig myself out anytime soon I have a pretty fun web project centered around David Simon’s brilliant television series The Wire that I want to run sometime this year. In the meantime, here’s a 26-minute video featuring David … Continue reading
A Map of the Internet
Paul Bond and I are teaching a course on the itnernet this semester, so I couldn’t resist this beautifully wrought map of the internet designed by JaySimons. I came across it thanks to this post on the OLDaily, and Stephen Downes … Continue reading
Brewster on Bitcoin
In this four-minute video over at Forbes (forgive their ad, they know not what they do), Brewster Kahle talks about some of the experiments the Internet Archive has been doing around Bitcoin for the last couple of years. He has … Continue reading
UMW Domains goes Back to School
Kim Jaxon and Patrick Berry had a compelling conversation as part of their most recent Back to School podcast about the fact that more and more faculty and students want alternatives to the centralized, campus-supported learning management system. The larger … Continue reading
Talking Domains at DML2014
Below is a four minute video clip for the upcoming Digital Media & Learning Conference, “Connecting Practices.” The conference is in Boston from March 6-8, and I’ll be part of a featured panel alongside the great Jonathan Worth, of Phonar … Continue reading