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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.
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My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
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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: WordPress
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Well, if you don’t know the quote from O Brother, Where art thou? it is worth a listen for it speaks to what exactly we’re doing over at ELS Blogs -this project ain’t no one off -this is the whole … Continue reading
Flickr blog is powered by WordPress.com, who knew?
Did anyone else notice that the official Flickr blog is hosted by WordPress.com? Perhaps not a groundbreaking discovery, nor particularly profound. Yet, it is reassuring to see Yahoo and the folks at Flickr using an open source, hosted solution like … Continue reading
The Motley Management System
Mike Caulfield’s post “Enterprise Learning Systems Considered Harmful to Learning” reminds me of some important questions that still remain unsettled with me. Why am I such a big advocate for a WordPress Mulit-User installation at UMW? I do believe that … Continue reading
WordTube Security Update
If you are using the extremely powerful and flexible WordTube plugin for WordPress, consider updating to the latest version (1.44). bavatuesdays was hacked through a critical backdoor in the code of version 1.33 which caused a little bit of concern … Continue reading
A cry for help! Can we build a bliki plugin to integrate WordPress and MediaWiki?
Over a month ago we started playing with the idea of bringing MediaWiki pages into WordPress post. The logic being you can combine the presentation possibilities and RSS feed generation of WordPress with the ease of formatting, editing and collaborative … Continue reading
MediaWiki/WordPress User Integration: One step closer to a bling bling bliki!
Update: I tested this extension with WPMU to no avail. Looks like it works only with single WP installs 2.1 or higher with MediaWiki installs that are PHP 4 based (I got it to work with version 1.6.8). Alan Levine … Continue reading
WPMU permissions hack for new users
If you are using or administrating WordPress Multi-User you may have come across the following error message for new users creating just a login name (not getting blog): You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. This problem … Continue reading
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: Discipline and Punish
OK, so last night’s class was so inspiring (a.k.a. sick) that I thought I would blog about it right quick. I have been leaving traces of some of the resources I have been finding on YouTube, and alluding to some … Continue reading
“It’s a movement…”
As we gear up for Faculty Academy 2007, I’d like to throw something out there. Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, recently blogged about how his labor of love with WordPress over the last four years might be re-purposed by … Continue reading
WordPress: power and simplicity
Subtitle: Are we ready to take WordPress as a CMS seriously yet? This is a post that was inspired by both a question on OLDaily as well as a post about Drupal documentation on Half an Hour. I originally threw … Continue reading