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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.
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Category Archives: reclaim
DML’s Reclaim Hosting Interview or, why I love Howard Rheingold
Since the very beginning when Tim Owens and I were getting Reclaim Hosting up and running two years ago, Howard Rheingold was right their experimenting with the platform for his classes at Stanford as well as providing broader support for our efforts … Continue reading
Digital Pedagogy, Empowered Choice, and Personal Domains
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind the last week or so. I flew back to Virginia from University of Pacific Saturday morning and then dropped the family off at JFK in NYC on Sunday for our extended Italian sojourn. … Continue reading
Reclaim Support
Tim Owens tweeted out the above image that graphs the ramp-up of support at Reclaim Hosting as the semester gets rolling. According to our ticket system Intercom, we’ve had 365 conversation over the last few weeks with an average respond time of … Continue reading
Repo Edtech
It was pretty cool to see this recent post by Adeline Koh on ProfHacker sharing her experience with Reclaim Hosting. I particularly liked this bit: It’s been four months since I’ve switched to Reclaim Hosting and I cannot say better things about the … Continue reading
Reclaiming State U
Earlier this week we rolled out State University at Reclaim Hosting. What’s State University? It’s Tim Owens‘s latest project to showcase just how elegant and painless he’s made the whole process. What’s more, the site demonstrates the experience we have created for the 22 schools … Continue reading
Re-ordering Pizza in 2015
Back in early June of this year I had the good fortune of listening to Phil Windley talking about digital identity, sovereign source identity, block chain, and much more at BYU’s The University API event. I deeply respect the caliber … Continue reading
Using Rsync to transfer files between servers
We’ve been getting a lot of migration requests from folks who want to moving their existing accounts over to Reclaim Hosting. We offer to migrate over anyone’s hosting account for free, which means you get to see the inner workings of … Continue reading
A Domain of the Practical
Adam Croom offered up a hypothesis in response to my post about the “Long Short History of Reclaim.” He argues that as much as Domains at the University of Oklahoma is deeply embedded in a philosophy of empowerment, ownership, and experimentation, it’s also … Continue reading
A Long Short History of Reclaim Hosting
New blog post: Domains Now Available Campus Wide at http://t.co/ifNxv4jfXi http://t.co/ZVVHj1WCfz — Adam Croom (@acroom) August 21, 2015 Earlier today Adam Croom shared that OU Create (the University of Oklahoma’s Domain initiative) would be open and freely available to the entire … Continue reading
Sleazy Design or, the Ugly World of Web Hosting and Domain Registrars
I was transferring someone’s domain over to Reclaim Hosting from another domain reseller this morning, and I was appalled at how sleazy they made the whole process. The registrar goes through alternating strategies from wooing to scaring to trying to make it work to resignation … Continue reading