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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.
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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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@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
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-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: Uncategorized
High Anxiety
Right now I’m enjoying a cable comma. And one of my favorite parts of cable is looking at how they are programming channels. To me HBO is shot right now, nothing interesting whatsoever, given I hate Curb Your Enthusiasm, and … Continue reading
A Yawp for Help! Describing Whitman in the World
Meghan Edwards is a student in the Digital Whitman class here at UMW, and she has come up with an extremely interesting idea for a final project that takes advantage of the social networking tools we have been using this … Continue reading
UMW Blogs Traffic Stats—do they mean anything?
I have been playing around with Google Analytics for UMW Blogs, and I took a snapshot of the traffic thus far this semester. Since August, 24th until today, UMW Blogs has had half a million page views by 211,000 visitors, … Continue reading
Spamming all Edublogs
Update: James Farmer has commented below noting that this marketing email was actually spam masquerading as Edublogs, so it looks like my direct marketing theory is off. Sorry if I misrepresented you here, James, my bad. Looks like the latest … Continue reading
The Endless Night: A Film Noir Valentine
Here’s an amazing mashup/tribute by RubyTuesday717 to the greatest of all film genres, the Noir. Thanks to Leo Parascandola for the link.
Now where was I?
October was pretty much a lost month for me, between working on the new casa la bava and preparing for my third child, I’ve been out of the loop. I had to put 110 Days to Xmas on ice (resurrection … Continue reading
The news of my death has been beautifully mashed up
Nothing like watching your own eulogy, I guess I really should pay Serena the 100 bucks I owe her 🙂
Bava bloody bava
Bava Bloody Bava from Tom Woodward on Vimeo. You know I have to bump this Tom Woodward masterpiece, now will someone give us a comedy act gig already? We’re artists, damn it! Oh yeah, and Jim, I think I might … Continue reading
WPMu: State of the Union Here and Abroad
Well, I have been deep in my toy blogging and out to sea in many regards, I become a home owner tomorrow, and just got back from an exhilarating talk in West Virginia that has my spirits up about a … Continue reading
More harm than good
Mike Caulfield and I have been having some fun thinking about questions of reform and the state of public education. I freely acknowledge I am out of my element, but I left a long comment on Mike’s post here, and … Continue reading