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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
YOUTUBERS: the video!
I was just reading Andy Rush’s blog, spending some quality time admiring his new “My YouTube Favorites” sidebar widget -very nice!, when I came cross a veritable gem! He is always good for an entertaining video, but the one I … Continue reading
A Social Revolution: The Web 2.0 Poster
Ross Mayfield’s “revolucion” poster puts a very specific context of the social back into Social Networking! “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people,” Ross Mayfield – WEb 2.0 Conference. via Christian Contini
The Grammar Mechanic via cac.ophony
Mikhail Gershovich over at cacophony just pointed to a great video on YouTube that features a clip from a 1980s sitcom called Grammar Mechanic. If I am remembering correctly, it was sandwiched between The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes … Continue reading
The so-called last FREEMAN!
There has been some speculation as to my uncanny resemblance to Gordon Freeman -a video game superhero with a Ph.D. in Physics. I hope the pictures below will finally put the question as to whether I am or am not … Continue reading
BDP RSS: A WordPress Aggregator that Works
This semester has raised some questions that have led me to start searching for a better rss aggregation tool for WordPress. And, as is often the case in the WordPress community, I think I have already found it! The background … Continue reading
The CUNY IT Conference: I am glad to see the conversation continues
Luke Waltzer, of cac.ophony fame, has done a nice job blogging some of the highlights from the CUNY IT conference on December 1st. One post in particular about the CUNY Online Baccalaureate Program has led to a very interesting conversation … Continue reading
Online games I stumbled upon recently
I just figured I would share my stumbling for any and all recovering gamers. Highlights from the list are etchy.org (an online etch-a-sketch), Simon (need I say more), Duck Hunt (this game is a lot harder than I remember), and … Continue reading
The De-Animator: A Flash game based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft
The interent can be a very scary place … have fun! Thanks go to bumlee (the creator of this game) and stumble upon for wasting all my time!
WordPress as a Library Catalog? Who knew???
Casey Bisson from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire has quite an interesting project he will be working on shortly, namely marrying the Library of Congress Catalog to WordPress! He plans on developing out WP-OPAC, or an online catalog for … Continue reading
wp2drupal: might I be jumping ship?
I am not sure if I am going to make the jump from WordPress to Drupal with bavatuesdays just yet, but I have been following Darcy Norman’s progress with Drupal quite closely over the past six months, and I am … Continue reading