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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.
I am Jim Groom
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Category Archives: bavatuesdays
‘Some caveats / things to note’ or, the bava according to ChatGPT
The blog is quite wide-ranging. If you are looking for very focused, academic writing, you may need to dig into specific posts. The author has a casual, personal tone—so the writing is less formal than peer-reviewed work. While the blog … Continue reading
10 Years a Stranger
It’s hard to believe I just passed the 10 year mark in Italy.* At this point all my kids have spent more of their lives as residents of Italy than the US. When we take our family trips back to … Continue reading
The Quest for 4000: Post 3935
This is post number 3,935 on this here blog. By December 13th, this blog’s 20th birthday, I’m hoping to make it an even 4,000 posts because I love symmetry: 4,000 posts over 20 years averaging out to 200 posts a … Continue reading
The Call of the Blog
I’ve heard Alan Levine mention the feeling of having to blog something. The idea that until you get that post out you can’t focus on anything else, and that’s certainly been the case for me as of late. When this … Continue reading
Bava Vitals
I’ve been running this blog on WordPress for near on twenty years, and it’s always been a bit of a laboratory. When we were exploring Digital Ocean or Reclaim Cloud for hosting this site often served as the avant garde … Continue reading
Archiving 20 Years of the bava
One of my projects for 2025 is to spend time each day reviewing all the posts I’ve written on a specific day since December of 2005. Twenty years of blogging is a pretty significant milestone, and it provides a good … Continue reading
Blog OR DIE!
Mark Corbett Wilson put together the above minute-long clip taken from the inaugural Reclaim Rewind 2024 event earlier this month. It features Maren Deepwell prompting me to discuss our company montra over the last several months, namely “Blog OR DIE!” … Continue reading
A WordPress Multiregion Recap
I started writing about running (or trying to run) a WordPress Multiregion (WPMR) instance of this blog in November of 2021. So over 3 years ago now. WordPress Multi-Region on Reclaim Cloud Since then I’ve written eleven posts tagged wpmr … Continue reading
My Post-cPanel Toolkit
I spend less and less time in cPanel managing my online presence. I’ve moved bavatuesdays off cPanel 10+ years ago given my blog demanded a bit more juice than shared hosting could provide resource-wise. But once my go-to site went … Continue reading
It Came from the bava Archive, Volume 1
Back in September I installed the On This Day plugin to start trying to review and clean-up the bava archive on a more regular basis. With almost 4,000 posts, this blog has accumulated a lot of jettisoned media and broken … Continue reading