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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
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-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
Costs in the Cloud
The other day I converted my beta account in Reclaim Cloud to a paid account to get a sense of costs. The idea of paying for resources on a per-app basis is a new way of approaching how I manage … Continue reading
Framed
When I was back in the USA in late January, early February before the world was turned upside down, I was getting some art framed for the complete site redesign of Reclaim Video and Reclaim Arcade. It really does seem … Continue reading
The bava 3400
This is post number 3400 on the bava, which is something. The blog turns 15 years old in December, and I hope to hit 3500 by then, making it a clean 233.3333 posts per year for the last 15 years. … Continue reading
Turn Off the Cloud Lights!
One of the things I have been doing over the last couple of months is tracking how many resources (known in Reclaim Cloud as cloudlets) each application environment requires. This is important because the more cloudlets you use the more … Continue reading
Ow3ned or Owned?
if you're getting organized right now, consider self-hosted server infrastructure. here's what @ExtinctionR is running, by @julian0liver and here is the key slide https://t.co/WpTPlVozyJ pic.twitter.com/Tq5MRNerNW — Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 7, 2020 A week or so ago Lori Emerson shared … Continue reading
Utopian Tendencies Episode 6: the Lifelong Learning Swindle
Yesterday’s Utopian Tendencies discussion on ds106radio was focused around Annette Krauss’s chapter “Lifelong Learning and the Professionalised Learner” from the 2018 book Unlearning Exercises: Arts Organizations as Sites for Unlearning. This was a reading Lauren Heywood shared and I really … Continue reading
Utopian Tendencies Episode 5: the Utopian Rhetoric of Web 2.0
https://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/audio/utopian_tendencies_5_utopian_rhetoric_web2.mp3 Trying to catch up on the Utopian Tendencies radio show Lauren Heywood and I have been producing the last couple of months. This recording is from the June 26th, 2020 live stream on ds106radio. This was the first time … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting’s Lucky 7
I will have more to say about the fact that Reclaim Hosting turns seven years old later this month, but that will most likely be linked with the official launch of Reclaim Cloud—the existence of which testifies there’s no seven-year … Continue reading
Reclaim Cloud Q&A
Yesterday Tim, Lauren, and I sat down to talk more in-depth about Reclaim Cloud, as well as use the occasion to respond to questions folks have about this new platform that’s currently in open beta. 018: Cloud Q&A If you … Continue reading
Mega Shark meets the USS Indianapolis
Tommaso and I are going live in 5 with his first video game dev log for his nascent shark video game developed in Unity https://t.co/GzpExUBnn6 #ds106tv pic.twitter.com/q8w5cLMAjG — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) July 10, 2020 Just like Captain Caveman and Jabberjaw, … Continue reading