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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: reclaim
Reclaim in One Word: Support
Much of my time since being on the road for almost all of October has been locked into Reclaim Hosting support (oh yeah, there’s also been conference planning and a new office as well). It’s been a fairly intense Fall, … Continue reading
Get SiteSucker, Sucker
I had followed with great interest the discussion on the Reclaim Hosting Community site about archiving a dynamic, database driven site as static HTML files. I share Alan Levine’s passion for trying to archive as much of the work I’ve done … Continue reading
Muhlenberg College: The ‘Berg Builds
This post has sat in draft for almost three weeks while I finished traveling and decompressing from a month away. Like Cogdog, I have been a tired blogger these days, but unlike Alan I haven’t always been able to push … Continue reading
Reclaiming Portland
It’s been a whirlwind of a trip since I ventured back to the US two weeks ago. I have neglected the bava, and few things pain me more. But that was then, this is now. The trip started in Portland, … Continue reading
Sitelock Scam
Recently Dean Shareski wrote about an issue he was having with his blog at Bluehost. The short story is his site got hacked, which happens to all of us. It’s the struggle of the web. But what was crazy was … Continue reading
Opening Pandora’s Box at Coventry
Yesterday I spoke with a faculty cohort at Coventry University about creating their own portfolios. This group was part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (or PgCert) course led by Martin Jenkins. PgCert provides professional development … Continue reading
Domains of Online Scholarly Presence
Yesterday Michigan State University’s Dean of the College of Arts & Letters, Chris Long, linked to this post on Twitter about MSU’s initiative to provide faculty and graduate students their own domain and web hosting. We offer every grad student & … Continue reading
Georgetown Slavery Site
One of the things we were given a heads up about recently was the fact that the Georgetown Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation site would be running Georgetown’s Domain of One’s Own server. Earlier this week they gave us a heads up … Continue reading
New Server: Joy Division
You cry out in your sleep, All my failings exposed. And there’s a taste in my mouth, As desperation takes hold. Just that something so good just can’t function no more. “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again” – Joy Division … Continue reading
Putting Domains Infrastructure in the Cloud
This semester we having been moving our Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) packages for new institutions to Digital Ocean. Up and until now we haven’t run DoOO through cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. for two reasons: price … Continue reading