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“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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Six of One
I’m thrilled Talky Tina suggested the 1960s U.K. TV series The Prisoner as the theme for this summer’s open version of ds106 for two reasons: 1) it’s a brilliant show, and 2) it’s a welcome opportunity to get back in the … Continue reading
Zach Whalen on the Vectex and #umwconsole
I have been spending the last two days capturing video of folks at UMW talking about the various digital projects they’re working on. I’m doing this in part for the Digital Scholars Institute (DSI) soirée this Thursday (I like short deadlines), as … Continue reading
There are Only Minds: MCI’s 1997 Cyberutopian TV Spot
I have spent the last day and half in Boulder, Colorado thanks to the kind folks at University of Colorado, Boulder’s Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSET). I presented a version of the talk I gave at the University of Oklahoma … Continue reading
My Media Consumption Problem (Part 1)
Since Zach Whalen and I started talking about UMW’s Console Living Room back in late January, I have quickly become consumed with consuming 1980s technology. Ebay has become one of the major outlets for my anachronistic impulses. Probably the best way … Continue reading
Total Recall: Panasonic Omnivision VCR
I’ve been getting pretty excited about the Console Living Room exhibit we’ll be doing in UMW’s Information and Technology Convergence Center starting the third week in March. Earlier this week I went down to Petersburg to pick up a 25″ Quasar … Continue reading
Tracking the Data of Domains
Over the past month Reclaim Hosting has been in the process of switching from Zendesk to Intercom.io for doing customer support. Zendesk was predominantly a support platform we used to answer tickets, and it was quite good at that. Nonetheless, Tim Owens is … Continue reading
Moral Endings in Cain’s Postman Always Rings Twice
Picking up on my last post about the broader crisis of existential meaning in Hemingway’s “The Killers” for noir 106, it might be be interesting to look at James M. Cain’s 1934 novella The Postman Always Rings Twice. I this reading I was struck by the deeply perverse … Continue reading
Noir 106: Week 1 – All Work and No Play
Just checking in to make sure everyone know that week’s one work is due this evening, no later than 11:59 PM. This will be the case each and every week, and I will not be sending these email reminders going … Continue reading
The Coming Sandstorm.io
I was hoping for a transportation metaphor, as per my last post, but when given lemons, invoke the Sand People! A couple of days ago Tim Owens tweeted about a new platform he was exploring called Sandstorm. Who wants to … Continue reading
How Automobiles, Super Highways, and Containerization helped me understand the future of the Web
What follows is a scripted draft of the presentation I gave Friday, January 9th at the OU TechExpo at the University of Oklahoma. Also, below is the abstract I was working off, as you can probably tell the two are often very … Continue reading