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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
A Plague On Both Their Houses
Here is the latest PR move by Desire2Learn to call out BlackBoard and their lawyer zombies. I guess there is something to it, and it’s obviously going to put BlackBoard in a public opinion corner, but who really gives a … Continue reading
Exclusive US release on the bava: TINS “Spaceland”
Here’s a first for the bava, I get to introduce the Western hemisphere to a kickass band from Trento, Italia: TINS (a.k.a Tourists in Sunderland). “What the hell are you doing pushing music you philistine?!” you ask accusingly. “You’re a … Continue reading
ADA Lovelace Day: Ms. Pacman
Well, as soon as Jeff McClurken told me about Ada Lovelace Day I knew I was in, I also knew who I wanted to blog about. It was really a no-brainer for me. Ms. Pacman….I love you! And if you … Continue reading
Shane McGowan or Nick Cave?
Well, for me it’s a no brainer, Nick Cave is a punk compared to Shane MacGowan. I mean let’s face it, the Australians are no match for the Irish, even when they dress up all purty 🙂 All though, to … Continue reading
Leave me alone, I’m a family man, and if you push me too far I just might….
The I Love this World blog delivers the goods again, this time through the Hall & Oates music video for “Family Man.” After watching this video I kind of understand the current dangers of the rising amateur culture. With the … Continue reading
EDUPUNK professor may face jail time for translating Derrida
Martin Santos just brought this to my attention. To quote boingboing: Horacio Potel, an Argentine philosophy professor at Universidad Nacional de LanĂşs,, faces criminal charges — and possible jail time — for posting unofficial translations of seminal Jacques Derrida texts … Continue reading
What time is it? It’s UMW Blogs time all the time
I have to admit, I don’t understand the Semantic Web, I’m too facile—I can only think in terms of b-movies and slick new plugins. But I fully recognize my limitations, in fact I embrace them. But when I see posts … Continue reading
Small Pieces To-Go
Image credit: devnull’s Kafka2 Andy Rush and I recently did a presentation focusing on the small pieces loosely joined approach for mobile devices. It was a fun presentation, particularly because Andy collected a wealth of information about apps for the … Continue reading
The Bullet to UMW Blogs?
I’ve been dying over the last two years to bring UMW’s The Bullet (our student-run newspaper) into the UMW Blogs fold. It drives me crazy that it’s hosted by the local Fredericksburg paper, particularly because they suck so bad. The … Continue reading
Postcards for the Dead Letter Office
Front: Back: Click on the images above to see the full-size version. You can also see them on the original post. I have been following a series of postcards on Elizabeth Staggs’ blog (Byrd & Lomax) which is nothing short … Continue reading