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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: blogging
Let the Golden Age Begin
Put your hands on the wheel Let the golden age begin Let the window down Feel the moonlight on your skin Tim Klapdor’s posts have been resonating with me these days, and it’s really nice to have a friend and … Continue reading
On Writing with Laura Hilliger
Last week I did my first “On Writing” chat of 2026 with gym teacher/blogger Laura Hilliger. Laura and I have been circling each other on the web for a long while, and her fun Reclaim Open submission “My Website is … Continue reading
20 Years of bavatuesdays
I did it. 4,000 posts in 20 years, averaging a clean 200 posts a year. NOBODY!* It feels right to end the #bava4000 run with a conversation with Tom Woodward—someone I came up with blogging, someone who was there for … Continue reading
But is it Blog Worthy?
One of the things I started thinking about as I make the final push toward 4,000 posts (this is 3,995) is the length of posts. I joked about “goosing the numbers” to reach my goal, but baked into that joke … Continue reading
3,976
With this post, I’m 24 entries away from hitting 4,000. To satisfy my sense of symmetry, I’d need to publish another 24 posts in the next 10 days so that I land on exactly 4,000 at the moment this blog … Continue reading
We’re not computers, Sebastian, we’re physical
I guess it makes sense to start a conference about blogging with a blog post about blogging—hello you beautiful Reclaim Open 25 folks! Let’s face it, blogging is a blogger’s favorite topic, right? And these days I’ve been thinking about what it means for blogging to transmogrify (it’s Halloween season, after all) into something else. Continue reading
Tim Klapdor “On Writing”
Before the “On Writing” series went on a bit of a vacation for the 4th of July (Independence my ass!), I had the pleasure of chatting with Tim Klapdor about his blogging career. Tim is an Australian ed-tech blogger who’s … Continue reading
The Quest for 4000: Post 3935
This is post number 3,935 on this here blog. By December 13th, this blog’s 20th birthday, I’m hoping to make it an even 4,000 posts because I love symmetry: 4,000 posts over 20 years averaging out to 200 posts a … Continue reading
The Call of the Blog
I’ve heard Alan Levine mention the feeling of having to blog something. The idea that until you get that post out you can’t focus on anything else, and that’s certainly been the case for me as of late. When this … Continue reading
Bryan Alexander “On Writing”
As my youngest son would say, in the parlance of our times, “you’re glazing Bryan Alexander again, dad.” This episode was a bit of a lovefest for edtech’s hardest working man, and I have no regrets. Bryan’s impact on the … Continue reading
