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“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: ds106radio
ds106radio is neither radical nor safe, it’s an experiment
A week or two ago Alec Couros tweeted a few questions about the appeal of ds106radio and its seemingly deviant relationship to copyright and/or licensing. You can see his tweets below: @jimgroom & #ds106‘ers – just watched ur @cogdog amazing … Continue reading
#ds106radio Bumper Stickers
Michael Branson Smith (@nottrivial) has been pumping out the ds106radio bumper stickers, and I can’t wait until they are real, because I am getting them all! See all seven on his blog here. This is a perfect design assignment fro … Continue reading
ds106radio panel at Northern Voice
This presentation was entirely unplanned, but luckily Grant Potter had the presence of mind to put together some clips to intersperse throughout. And, to be honest, I was amazed at how well the whole thing went off given the potential … Continue reading
The Sanctuary
Image credit: The Sanctuary by D’Arcy Norman I have a lot to say about the awesomeness that was the Northern Voice experience this past weekend (and I have a post in draft about that), but for now I just want … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #61 Wild Bunch Radio Show Pt 1
I having been watching and re-watching The Wild Bunch in order to make animated GIFs, rip audio for #ds106radio, as well as feature some of Jerry Fielding’s awesome soundtrack. I spent a very unstructured hour and a half just blabbing … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #45 Mike Watt + The Missing Men Live on #ds106radio
On Saturday night Noise Professor went to see Mike Watt + The Missing Men play the last leg of their Hyphenated-Man Tour at the Blue Lamp Lounge in Sacramento. And you know what I kinda felt like I was there, … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #39 ds106 radio by the numbers
Thanks to the great Aaron Clemmer and his ds106 radio Twitterbot we now have a very rough sense of how much time we have been live versus AutoDJ. Like I said, it is far from exact, but it gives us … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #28 CAnU dig it?
CAnU dig it?! ~ easter weekend by draggin Jason Toal (a.k.a @draggin) has been on fire with his mixes for ds106 Radio for a long while now. He has consistently been putting out amazing stuff, and his scratch, cut, and … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #25 Half Hour Happy Hour Special
Nash Dongwell, Cheeky Hudson, and Corporal Ace Bessman take their awesome radio show from earlier this semester (I link to the ealrier radio show below in this post) to TV for a half-hour special about their humble, shag carpet smuggling … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #24 Presentation on Social Media at UMW
Last week Will Richardson asked me to speak for about 20 minutes to a group of professors at the University of Washington, Bothell (I kept saying Bethel, I don’t know why–some kind of strange block) about the use of social … Continue reading