Category Archives: reclaimopen

Over 1000 Reclaims

Today Reclaim Hosting went over the 1000 reclaimers mark. That’s right, in the last six months more than 1000 people choose to explore reclaiming their online presence through a system that Tim “the Wizard” Owens built into one hell of a … Continue reading

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Reclaim Workshop

I was invited to give a talk at the Sloan-Consortium’s 7th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning. I’ll be talking about Domain of One’s Own, Reclaim Hosting, web thinking,  and some of the amazing possibilities we’re starting to see emerge … Continue reading

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TIny Tiny RSS

It’s taken me more than six months to resurrect my RSS reader (pathetic, I know), but I’ve finally imported my forlorn collection of feeds into the open source application Tiny Tiny RSS. I went with this application based on a recommendation … Continue reading

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Davidson Domains

Davidson College just announced they were awarded a Mellon Grant “to create a curricular model of digital studies that can be replicated by other small liberal arts colleges.” Pat Sellers coordinated the grant and Mark Sample will be the lead for developing the … Continue reading

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Shuttleworth Flash Update

This Summer I got a Shuttleworth Foundation flash grant thanks to David Wiley‘s recommendation.  I’ve blogged about what I’ve done as part of the grant over the last several months, but I wanted to summarize it all here. Reclaim Hosting Domain … Continue reading

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Wither Blip.tv? Another Lesson in Reclaiming

I found out the hardway this morning, thanks to this comment from Alan Levine, that all the videos in my Blip.tv archive have been deleted. I quickly started searching around for the EdTech Survivalist videos that were there before the Blip.tv … Continue reading

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Will Shuttleworth Reclaim Your Domain?

Shuttleworth Foundation Application Video from Jim Groom on Vimeo. I just completed and submitted my applciation for a Shutteworth Foundation Fellowship. I’ve been using the Flash Grant I recieved from Shuttleworth over the Summer to build Reclaim Hosting, fund ds106 … Continue reading

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School Pictures

In Puerto Rico last week I gave an extemporaneous presentation about how I got into blogging. My blog origins were only tangentially related to education, I was first and foremost a blogfather. I started blogging to understand the birth of … Continue reading

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Reclaim Your Domain: Honing the Vision

I have a ton to write about because this past week was pretty intense. The Minding the Future event on Monday, OpenVA on Tuesday, travel to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, a workshop at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon on Thursday … Continue reading

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Where have the Online Neighborhoods Gone?

After linking to the “One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op” Tumblr in my last post, I started reading around a bit on the Geocities research blog. This post by Olia Lialina (pioneer web artist and theorist) about Neocities got me thinking a lot about how … Continue reading

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