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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
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-Clint Lalonde
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-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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Category Archives: Domain of One’s Own
Domain of One’s Own 2.0: the Manatee Release
In this wopping one hour and 26 minute video Martha Burtis and Tim Owens take you through two years of development on the UMW Domains project. It’s the most thorough record available of the work they’ve been doing since Summer 2012, … Continue reading
Lost in the Stacks
I saw the following tweet and got intereted… Mentioned on last week’s show: http://t.co/olHfEJmhyX #ATLDomain #ReclaimHosting #DomainOfOnesOwn — Lost in the Stacks (@LibraryRadio) May 27, 2014 And as a result of my curiosity I spent the last hour listening to … Continue reading
Has the Time Arrived for Hosted Lifebits?
I’m a big fan of Kin Lane‘s for many reasons: he’s west coast cool, he’s passionate about what he believes in, he’s a technical wizard, and he wraps that all up with some intense creativity and vision. What one might … Continue reading
A Problem of Coherence
Almost two weeks ago (is it really two weeks already?) I attended the Domain Incubator at Emory Unviersity wherein we had a focused discussion about several of the possibilities and issues surrounding Domain of One’s Own. As a quick aside, … Continue reading
Talking Domains All Semester Long
One of the many cool things Cathy Derecki did while at UMW was create EagleEye, a weekly faculty and staff online newsletter about what’s happening in the community. The site runs in the umw.edu in WordPress on our umw.edu install, … Continue reading
Mastering All the Domains
As the semester winds down I’m gearing up to MASTER ALL THE DOMAINS!
The Many Faces of Domain
It’s going to take several posts to try and capture the unbelievable experience that was the Domain Incubator held at Emory University this past weekend—mad kudos to Pete Rorabough and David Morgen for putting on a stellar event. This post will try … Continue reading
Post-Conference Sloan-C Interview
On Wednesday I had a discussion with Sandra Coswatte, Cathy Arreguin, Zeren Eder, and Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz of Sloan-C about the presentation I gave at et4online conference . The interview covers a brief history of my beginnings in the field of edtech—which centers around having gotten a domain and web hosting … Continue reading
Playing Host to Higher Ed’s Long Overdue Web Party
My last post got me thinking about some pretty basic ideas when it comes to some of the approaches for edtech I’ve been going on about recently. Cheap commodity web hosting has been around for roughly fifteen years. There’s nothing … Continue reading
Considering Running Domain of One’s Own on Your Campus?
Well then, Martha Burtis, Tim Owens, and Ryan Brazell have been doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Below are a series of resources that we have shared with people who are inquiring about running UMW Domains on … Continue reading