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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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Author Archives: Reverend
Minding the Future Program at a Glance
It’s hard to believe both Minding the Future and OpenVA are less than a week away now. I’ve finally gotten the titles and abstracts of the 10-minute talks happening in the afternoon along with a sneak preview of some of the issues … Continue reading
The Insanity of Gender Trouble
A girl that thinks to assume the mask of a man, can shuffle off the baptismal name given her and take the name Alvin J. Ward, take the place of a man and marry a woman—Your Honor knows there was … Continue reading
If I could bronze one tweet…
…about UMW’s DTLT it would be this one by Mike Caulfield. Boss just asked me why she’d never heard of UMW and #ds106 if it was so influential. Told her UMW was like the Velvet Underground of edtech. — Mike … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own: a Toolkit for User Innovation
I’ve been asked the following question a lot over the last year: What’s the difference between UMW Blogs and Domain of One’s Own? Why build and support something like Domain of One’s Own when you already have UMW Blogs? I’ve … Continue reading
Tech Noir
Watched Terminator (1984) tonight and love that Kyle Reese and the Terminator first open fire on one another is a kind of punk/new wave bar call Tech Noir (according to the Wikipedia article it’s the inspiration for an entire genre … Continue reading
Abel Ferrara Interview with Conan O’Brien
Writing my last post about a parody of Mike Francesa of “Mike and the Mad Dog” fame it sent me down a rabbitt hole that led me to the above 1996 interview between Abel Ferrara and Conan O’Brien. Abel Ferrera … Continue reading
Revolution Radio: NY Sports Talk Radio in 1776
I spent many years listening to sports radio in NYC, and Mike Francesa and Chris Russo (who made up the Mike and the Mad Dog show on AM radio for almost twenty years) were an extremely entertaining duo. They talked … Continue reading
Developing Story: ds106 Explained!
One of the most difficult things about ds106 is talking about it to someone who hasn’t experienced it. And that’s not because it is some insider “you had to be there” mentality, but beause it is multifarious and protean. It … Continue reading
Dirty Snow Hardboiled
More than six months ago I finished reading Georges Simenon‘s novel Dirty Snow. It still haunts me regularly. There’s only one other book that I’ve read over the last decade that has had the same, harrowing effect on me: Cormac … Continue reading
12
I’m a bit late for yesterday’s Daily Create, but when I saw the assignment was based around the theme of 12 I couldn’t resist. I have a long love affair with the number 12, I was born on the 12th … Continue reading