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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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Category Archives: YouTube
Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee
On Twitter yesterday Luke Walter linked to this video of Muhammad Ali fighting Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on November 14, 1966. It’s a remarkable, high quality display of just how accurate his declaration that he can … Continue reading
Ferenando Di Leo’s The Boss (1973)
Now this is how you make your point!
A 1982 roundtable discussion with John Landis, John Carpenter, and David Cronenberg
I follow the Cinephilia and Beyond Tumblr, and I am glad I do because it is filled with film gems like the one above. Yesterday I came across this remarkable interview with three masters of 70s and 80s film, namely John Landis, John Carpenter, and David … Continue reading
bavateusdays Film Fest Site Up and Running and we have Hercules on Tap
So we are in week two of the bavatuesdays film festival. I had a blast doing the first show on Black Sunday (1960) with Paul Bond, and I am preparing for round two this Tuesday at 2:30 PM on Hercules in … Continue reading
Can Universities Reclaim the Web Too?
In the chapter on “The Public Engagement as Collateral Damage” in Martin Weller‘s The Digital Scholar he talks about the fact that traffic to user-generated content on commercial sites is far greater than free, open content on higher education sites: … Continue reading
Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
This post is part of an inadvertent series of posts about my attempts to fight various media companies claims of copyright infringement on my uploaded YouTube clips. You can see part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and … Continue reading
YouTube, Copyright, and the ongoing Claims on our Culture
This post is part of an inadvertent series of posts about my attempts to fight various media companies claims of copyright infringement on my uploaded YouTube clips. You can see part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here … Continue reading
More News from the YouTube Liberation Front
I have had some fun watching the dispute emails come in from YouTube about the videos I have uploaded over the years. And I am actually excited to report 4 of the last 5 disputes were decided in my favor. … Continue reading
YouTube: You lose most, you win one by default
As I blogged about earlier this week, results of my challenges to YouTube for more than 40 videos have been coming in, and for almost a week I got nothing but rejections (25 in all) of my claims of Fair … Continue reading