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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.
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-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."
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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
Troubleshooting Madden 2001 YoloBox Streaming to 27″ CRT TV
I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit troubleshooting a streaming setup in bava.studio for Madden 2001. I’m going to capture some of my various failed attempts below so I don’t repeat the errors: Tried RetroPie with AV/RCA run … Continue reading
Audrey Watters on Writing
Tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern on ReclaimTV I will be talking with Audrey Watters about her career as a writer on and off the web. I can’t think of too many people who’ve made as big an impact in edtech … Continue reading
Yeti Back from the Dead
There’s been a dead Blue Yeti mic hanging around the house for almost a year now. It was left in the foyer, so I would see it just about every day and think, briefly, “maybe I should look at that,” … Continue reading
Bloggers Anonymous: “First Things First”
Seems my excitement may have gotten the best of me with my first couple of Bloggers Anonymous posts. I failed to mention a few basics, which is a sure fire way to kill the momentum of our collective corporate media … Continue reading
YoloBox Pro, Madden 2001, and a Reason to Stream
The rainy weekend in Trento provided a good excuse to play with the YoloBox Pro that’s been sitting on my shelf. I regularly chat with Tim about all the streaming he’s doing at Reclaim Arcade, which was an added push … Continue reading
Living in AI Oblivion
It’s a ds106 world and I’m justing living in it. One of the many tasks for week 2 of ds106 is availing yourself to the wisdom of ds106’s AI bot the venerable Dr. Oblivion. So, given I have been thinking … Continue reading
One Post at a Time
Picking up on the bloggers anonymous theme I’ve been having a bit of fun with, I was thinking about the parallel ideas in Alcoholics Anonymous, an organization that has kept many lost souls on the straight and narrow quite effectively. … Continue reading
Bloggers Anonymous
There’s been some rumblings there’s a blogging reniassance afoot, given the idea comes from the brilliant mind of Maren Deepwell (an inveterate blogger) the smart money is on #blogging4life. When Maren suggested Reclaim “sponsor” a community of practice focused around … Continue reading
RetroNAS: Networking for Retrogamers
Taylor Jadin blogged about experimenting with RetroNAS as a tool to help organize the various devices he uses to play games on his various retrocomputing devices. He describes the tool in the following way: It does a few different things, … Continue reading
Revving Up the ds106 Engine
The tech noir edition of ds106 is in full swing this spring, and I’m feeling locked-in. It’s been a while since I have felt energized like this, and so much of that is rooted in commenting. Not only has ds106 … Continue reading