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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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Fall 2012 Report Card for DTLT
At the beginning of last semester I posted a list of projects DTLT was planning on working through during the Fall 2012 semester. I forgot about it until I was asked to map out how our group plans on assessing … Continue reading
UbuWeb is Free
A 1986 conversation about art and the Amgia with Andy Warhol, from Amiga World magazine [PDF, 2mb]: is.gd/ZdBWiV — UbuWeb (@ubuweb) January 9, 2013 Today I followed a link from UbuWeb’s twitter account (as I usually do) to this 1986 article in Amiga … Continue reading
Digital Noise in Technicolor
I was converting a video I downloaded from the Internet Archive (The Great Train Robbery to be precise) in ffMPEGX so that it would show up in MPEG Streamclip so I could create this GIF. While that was converting I clicked … Continue reading
Golden Eagle Grabs Nintendo 3DS
The above video went viral last week, turns out it was an created by a group of Canadian students at Centre NAD for a class. The object was to design a viral video, 37 million views later they won. I … Continue reading
5 Years Later
Nothing is lost
Anil Dash has quite an remarkable post titled the “Web We Lost” (thans for the heads up Tim). I really like the bit below because it gets right at the heart of the Domain of One’s Own pilot we are running at … Continue reading
7 Years Later
Today is the seven year anniversary of bavatuesdays. Andy Rush and I are working on a more creative take on the bava’s anniversary coming soon that’ll pay homage to my third year on the bava post, so stay tuned. Seven … Continue reading
Babyboomers Eat Babies, or a Weak Critique of Domain of One’s Own
Larry McCallum, Web Librarian for Thompson River University (TRU), posted his thoughts about my presentation on Domain of One’s Own this past Friday at The Day for Learning conference. And besides the suggestion that I must resonate deeply with the shallow, … Continue reading
Why so serious?
This is my last word on James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia because I need to write about the re-emergence of black capitalism in Walter Mosely’s Devil in a Blue Dress. At the beginning of Tuesday’s discussion about Devil in a … Continue reading
My GIFs Just Ain’t What They Used to Be
I recently wrote about all the GIFs I’ve made over the last two years, but something I forgot to mention is how much the quality of the GIFs I’ve made lately suck. I had a pretty solid workflow in which … Continue reading