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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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Tag Archives: #4life
Unwinding a Much Needed CryBabyCast on #ds106radio
Yesterday I finally finished the post saying Goodbye to Duke that I started Sunday while doing a full blown #CryBabyCast—a tried and true tradition on the mighty #ds106radio. I was a mess this weekend, and frankly I’m still a bit … Continue reading
Martin Weller “On Writing”
One of the nice things about interviewing bloggers about blogging is that there is a pretty good chance they’ll blog it, saving me some extra blogging. Anyway, the great Martin Weller has done just that by writing about our chat … Continue reading
Kin Lane on Writing, Blogging, and Life
Continuing to build on our #blogging4life theme at Reclaim Hosting, I have the pleasure and privilege to follow-up my discussion with Audrey Watters last month with another discussion about writing, blogging, and life with the ever-inspiring Kin Lane. Kin is … Continue reading
Revving Up the ds106 Engine
The tech noir edition of ds106 is in full swing this spring, and I’m feeling locked-in. It’s been a while since I have felt energized like this, and so much of that is rooted in commenting. Not only has ds106 … Continue reading
Aggressive Technologies is Overvalued
A couple of weeks ago Paul Bond and I caught up with Martha “Sinclair” Burtis to do a playful skit around the fictional company Aggressive Technologies that the students in ds106.ai not only created, but have also been running with. … Continue reading
It Came from the bava Archive, Volume 1
Back in September I installed the On This Day plugin to start trying to review and clean-up the bava archive on a more regular basis. With almost 4,000 posts, this blog has accumulated a lot of jettisoned media and broken … Continue reading
The Return of Unwound
What was wound? Back in February I attended an Unwound show at the Wiltern in the inimitable Los Angeles. LA is a special city to me, given I spent some of my formative years living there and attending UCLA #4life. … Continue reading
Hitting an Open Source Update Trifecta
One of the things I have been working on recently is stitching together a bunch of open source tools for an online “Oblivion University,” if you will. I’ll write about that more in another post, but I just wanted to … Continue reading
Oblivion University!
I could say more, but who has the time—not to mention, who would listen?

The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting
I think it was the great Scottlo that underscored the “Always Be Commenting” mantra while teaching ds106 in Japan, and it’s something I’ve returned to constantly over the last 10+ years—even when not living up to it’s eternal truth. So … Continue reading →