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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
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-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: ds106
The Monogamous Book Club: Inauspicious Beginnings
Well, I spent much of this morning configuring my computer for the first episode of The Monogamous Podcast. I use Alan Levine’s Rube Goldberg machine to broadcast on ds106rad.io. I am gonna leave a screenshot of my Ladiocast settings for … Continue reading
Reclaim’s Fantastic Four
Yesterday was a special day, Reclaim Hosting grew to four full-time employees with the hiring of Meredith Fierro. Four is the perfect number for a super group, wouldn’t you agree? Needless to say, the costumes are on order. Meredith worked … Continue reading
bavaradio show notes for March 27 2017
At the bottom of the hour I will be doing a set on #ds106radio. Do I have anything planned? Of course not! https://t.co/DQNyRE6sLp — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) March 27, 2017 As promised, I have made a subtle return to ds106rad.io. … Continue reading
My ds106 Valentine
Been a while since I jumped on the Daily Create train, but I could not resist today’s OG throwback in honor of ds106 hall of famer Sarah Kountz: It is a testament to Sarah’s insanity that among all the things I could … Continue reading
Stickers
Bryan Mathers siphoned off some booty to Italy from the Reclaim Hosting motherload. We secured a bunch of stickers by backing Visual Thinkery’s Indiegogo campaign, and I’m glad we did. I really love the stickers visually, and they are also quite functional … Continue reading
Reclaim the Office
Guys, its going to be like #ds106 all the time: @ReclaimHosting acquires @fredxfoundryhttps://t.co/WNttJ9spEH — Ceci n'est pas une Lindley (@lindleylizestes) December 20, 2016 Lindley Estes caught up with Tim Owens yesterday to talk about the new Reclaim Hosting offices in … Continue reading
Muhlenberg College: The ‘Berg Builds
This post has sat in draft for almost three weeks while I finished traveling and decompressing from a month away. Like Cogdog, I have been a tired blogger these days, but unlike Alan I haven’t always been able to push … Continue reading
Goodspell: Gospel Radio for the #ds106 Generation
This past Sunday I was honored to be a guest on the very last episode of Mariana Funes and John Johnston‘s podcast the ds106 Goodspell. They have been talking in detail about 106 bullet points of ds106 that Mariana posted back … Continue reading
Ocean’s 106 Club
My own personal web monitoring system, Alan Levine, sent me this tweet Friday: @jimgroom what the ~ happened to https://t.co/sKXA0liG9y ? — Alan has x-ed to @cogdog (@cogdog) September 8, 2016 Turns out ds106.club was down, and I’m pretty sure a … Continue reading
The Grey Warm Pearls Shone…
I finally got around to playing with Tom Woodward‘s Erasure Poetry SPLOT (smallest possible learning online tool?) on the VCU’s Artfulness site. I knew of the process of removing text from a page of text to create a tight, terse phrase or … Continue reading