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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
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-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: general
My Bloody Valentine
I recently got a Netflix film packaged in what I thought was a cheesy Valentine’s day ad (see above image). I was partially right, it was cheesy a holiday-inspired ad, the only rub was that it was being passed off … Continue reading
5 reasons why I want to go to Northern Voice
My plea for travel funds from Northern Voice at UBC: More seriously, I have no more developmental funds from UMW left, and I think that Northern Voice is where I need to be. The structure of the conference, the caliber … Continue reading
Where should the Locus of Control be?
Darcy Norman recently had a great post on current definitions of the digital native and spaghetti sauce. I love his metaphysical marriage of such unlikely bedfellows as learners and gravy. He adopts this conceit from Malcolm Gladwell’s 2004 TedTech Talk … Continue reading
Who says there is no good content on Youtube?
Please be warned that this video requires a sense of humor![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube]
Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout – a quick review
This week has been a long one, the semester starts Monday and I have much to say about my recent experiments with Drupal, MediaWiki, bbpress, Open Journal Systems, and WordPress. But until I muster up the time and energy to … Continue reading
Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!
Jim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles … Continue reading
YOUTUBERS: the video!
I was just reading Andy Rush’s blog, spending some quality time admiring his new “My YouTube Favorites” sidebar widget -very nice!, when I came cross a veritable gem! He is always good for an entertaining video, but the one I … Continue reading
A Social Revolution: The Web 2.0 Poster
Ross Mayfield’s “revolucion” poster puts a very specific context of the social back into Social Networking! “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people,” Ross Mayfield – WEb 2.0 Conference. via Christian Contini
The Grammar Mechanic via cac.ophony
Mikhail Gershovich over at cacophony just pointed to a great video on YouTube that features a clip from a 1980s sitcom called Grammar Mechanic. If I am remembering correctly, it was sandwiched between The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes … Continue reading
The so-called last FREEMAN!
There has been some speculation as to my uncanny resemblance to Gordon Freeman -a video game superhero with a Ph.D. in Physics. I hope the pictures below will finally put the question as to whether I am or am not … Continue reading