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Testimonials:
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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Recent comments
- Where Have All The Bloggers Gone? – CogDogBlog on bava 3003
- Gizmo-ing Stuff to Mastodon – CogDogBlog on Reclaim.Rocks Mastodon
- Reverend on Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking
- Eric Likness on Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking
- Reverend on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Reverend on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Mastodon. So far – David Hopkins / Education & Leadership on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Clint Lalonde on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Alan Levine on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Reverend on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- D'Arcy Norman on Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Colby on Total Recall: Panasonic Omnivision VCR
- Reverend on There’s a ds106 Social Going On in Mastodon!
- Alan Levine on There’s a ds106 Social Going On in Mastodon!
- Jim Groom on There’s a ds106 Social Going On in Mastodon!
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Recent Posts
- Elevator Action Multikit Installation
- November’s Ghost Redux
- Reclaim.Rocks Mastodon
- Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking
- Archiving Twitter
- Some Notes on Mastodon after Two Weeks
- Installing Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
- Preparing to Install Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
- Hacks for Hybrid Working Flexing on Reclaim Edtech
- Haunting the Ghost Flex Course
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Contributors
some favorites
- Alan Levine
- Andy Rush
- Audrey Watters
- bava.social
- Bonnie Stewart
- Brian Lamb
- Bryan Alexander
- Chris Lott
- Clint LaLonde
- Cole Camplese
- Darcy Norman
- David Kernohan
- David Wiley
- Gardner Campbell
- GNA Garcia
- Grant Potter
- Jeffrey Keefer
- Jon Beasley-Murray
- Jon Udell
- Kate Bowles
- Kin Lane
- Laura Blankenship
- Leslie Madsen-Brooks
- Lisa M Lane
- Martha Burtis
- Martin Hawksey
- Martin Weller
- Mike Caulfield
- Mikhail Gershovich
- Mountebank
- Paul Bond
- Scott Leslie
- Serena Epstein
- Shannon Hauser
- Stephen Downes
- The OLDaily
- Tim Owens
- Tom Woodward
- Tony Hirst
Category Archives: Reclaim Cloud
Installing Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
The following video guide shows you how to install Mastodon on a Reclaim Cloud virtual private server (VPS). This guide assumes you have your VPS spun up in Reclaim Cloud, a domain for your server chosen, a transactional email account … Continue reading
Preparing to Install Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud
The following video tutorial takes you through the process of preparing to install Mastodon on a virtual private server (VPS) in Reclaim Cloud. I’ve installed a few servers now, and based on that experience it makes sense to break things … Continue reading
There’s a ds106 Social Going On in Mastodon!
Rhyming post titles will cost you extra! 🙂 @ReclaimHosting Y'all don't happen to help clients start up Mastodon servers, do you? — Derek Bruff (@derekbruff) November 6, 2022 I got sucked down an elephant-sized rabbit hole the last couple of … Continue reading
Talking WordPress Multiregion Hosting on Reclaim Today
Last week Lauren Hanks, Chris Blankenship, and I recorded a session for Reclaim Today, “Oh What Brave New Worlds of WordPress Multiregion Hosting!” wherein we discuss the process of getting Reclaim Hosting’s main site running in in a WordPress mutliregion … Continue reading
November’s Ghost
This month at Reclaim Edtech Pilot, Taylor and I will be running a flex course focused on getting up and running with the open source publishing tool Ghost. It will take place every Wednesday over the next three weeks at … Continue reading
Flattening the DNS Curve with Cloudflare
I feel like I could write a book about just last week at Reclaim Hosting, so many awesome things happening and the work we’re doing to build a sense of team internally and community more generally is really starting to … Continue reading
Multiregion: a Year-Long Odyssey
Since our all-team meeting in November of last year I have been chasing the White Whale of WordPress multiregion hosting on Reclaim Cloud. I’ve been experimenting with it on and off since January. You can find the tale of the … Continue reading
Chatting DoOO, Open Source, and More with Ed Beck
Early last week Ed Beck asked if I would be willing to talk with him (and by extension his class) about some advantages (and limits) of open source applications in education. I think Ed has been following my recent championing … Continue reading
Copying Files between Environments in Reclaim Cloud
I’ll be submitting this guide to Reclaim Hosting’s support documentation to illustrate how to move files between environments using the Reclaim Cloud GUI. I discovered this trick while migrating a Ghost instance in Reclaim Cloud from one environment to another … Continue reading
Learning from Reclaim Cloud’s Ghost Installer
As I already mentioned in my last post, I spent some time this week moving my bavaGhost install over to a new environment in Reclaim Cloud to take advantage of Taylor Jadin’s snazzy new Ghost one-click installer. Taylor and I … Continue reading