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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.
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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
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Jim Groom is a fiery man.
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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
bavacade Update 11-24-2024
I once again have a 100% working arcade, huzzah! Most of the work these days is shoring up the rest of the cabinets to get rid of any structural issues and put them on wheels. There are only two cabinets … Continue reading
The Hitcher: Never Pick Up a Stranger in Portland
Picking up on my last post about how much PDX rules, let me pile on a bit more. The day after I arrived Zach took me to the Hollywood Theatre to see The Hitcher (1986) in 35mm. Approaching the amazing … Continue reading
Still Unwinding
It’s just over a month since re-living the glory days of 1994 at Portland’s Revolution Hall. The show was billed as Unwound playing their 1994 album New Plastic Ideas. That was reason enough to go to the show, and I … Continue reading
Introducing the Family Pictures Podcast
A few months back Michael Branson Smith (MBS) ran the idea of doing a regular podcast about films dedicated to the idea of the “family picture.” At first I was thinking family-friendly films are “not my bag, baby.” But I … Continue reading
Convergence 10 Years On
Back in October Meredith Fierro was part of a 10 year anniversary celebration of UMW’s Hurley Convergence Center (originally the Information Technology Convergence Center). She shared some photos from the event, and it provides me the welcome occasion to reflect … Continue reading
An Open Conversation with VA Tech on Archiving and Much More
Last Friday Taylor and I got lucky enough to chat with Corinne Guimont and Alex Kinnaman of Virginia Tech’s Libraries to discuss the multi-headed hydra that is archiving in today’s diverse and uneven ecosystems of media. As was a theme … Continue reading
Something to Tide Me Over
I was doing a little checking on the bavablog, and I have three blog posts titled “Something to Tide You Over,” which is probably not very good for delineation and discovery. Then again, bavatuesdays has always been a b blog. … Continue reading
Human Made’s S3 Uploads Plugin
Last year I wrote a bit about the WP Offload Media plugin when we were offloading more than 700 GB of files from Macaulay’s Eportfolios to S3. The plugin did the job, but one of the struggles with this plugin … Continue reading
The Future of Multidimensional Scholarship with Amanda Licastro
Last week Pilot and I spoke with Dr. Amanda Licastro, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Swarthmore College, about everything from the limits and possibilities of virtual reality in higher ed to the challenges of archiving protest signs from Swarthmore’s Peace Collection. … Continue reading
A Shout-Out to the Zilog Z80
As referred to in my previous post, I’ve been struggling to figure out what specific Z80 processor I need to get my spare Scramble PCB working. I had the main processor for the board, which was a Zilog Z80 chip, … Continue reading