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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
Faculty Academy 2007: One School to Rule them All
Well, it’s hard to believe, but the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy is just five short days away -May 16th and 17th. For those of you who may be new to it, this is a unique event that has … Continue reading
Playing with Pligg
I installed the digg-clone Pligg on my bluehost account here, and all’s well so far. The install is very straight forward: create a mysql database, change some folder/file permissions, and click on /install.php. It has a few out-of-the-box module/plugins like … Continue reading
Slavoj Zizek on The Children of Men
Here’s a five minute commentary on Children of Men by Slavoj Zizek that is packaged with the DVD. I watched this movie for a second time tonight and I was even more enthralled and impressed than the first go around … Continue reading
Portrait of a Fanboy
To take a page out of Quentin Compson’s book, “I’m not a fanboy! I’m not a fanboy!! I’m not a fanboy!!!” Appropriate prodding provided by D’Arcy Norman.
A Tale of the Tape: Videosift as told by my del.icio.us
Videosift is a digglike video site powered by the open source digg-clone pligg (we’re gonna have to play a bit more with this one!). Pretty self explanatory, but a couple of things come to mind: Web 2.0 Online Educational Film … Continue reading
Do the Right Thing… Ernie
Searching for the opening credits for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (the “Fight the Power” sequence with Rosie Perez), I stumbled upon a different kind of gem in the vein of some interesting videos Bryan Alexander has been posting … Continue reading
WordPress: power and simplicity
Subtitle: Are we ready to take WordPress as a CMS seriously yet? This is a post that was inspired by both a question on OLDaily as well as a post about Drupal documentation on Half an Hour. I originally threw … Continue reading
Digg Down, DRM Up
I was scrolling through my google reader early this morning when I realized that something was amiss with Digg. Just about every article title in my digg folder either displayed or made reference to Hurley‘s jinxed holy grail of HD-DVD … Continue reading
Second Life is more interesting…
Another deep thought brought to you by the spammers of bavatuesdays: Flower Apr 30th, 2007 at 12:54 am Edit This is a good article…..But I think joining the secondlife is more interesting….You could make youself more beautiful in secondlife than … Continue reading