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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: reclaim
Building Capacity at Reclaim
It’s taken me 2+ years, but I’ve finally beat my bosses on this list. ? pic.twitter.com/AWY1yJmqcE — Lauren Hanks (@brumface) August 8, 2017 Yesterday Lauren tweeted that she has taken control of the coveted top spot on the Reclaim Hosting support … Continue reading
Reclaim Turns 4
This week Reclaim Hosting turns 4 years old. That’s something, isn’t it? This year has been a really good one. We brought Lauren on full time, hired Meredith, designed and opened an office/co-working space, started a second web hosting company, … Continue reading
The Moodle Fighters Suck!
But damn they look good! This is the Moodle Fighters (at least some of them): Grant Potter, pictured above rocking the bass, along with Brian Lamb on drums and Mikhail Gershovich on guitar (as well as Luke Waltzer—not pictured here) made … Continue reading
Reclaim Video
I’ve been on a bit of a blogging sabbatical the last month or so. It’s been nice to take a break, but at the same time I have never had more to write about between the Domains 17 conference (total … Continue reading
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UMW Blogs was feeling its age this Spring (it officially turned ten this month—crazy!) and we got a few reports from the folks at DTLT that performance was increasingly becoming an issue. Since 2014 the site had been hosted on … Continue reading
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Bryan Mathers is a genius. Have I said that already?
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CoWork Fredericksburg is officially up and running now, and I even have a tweet to prove it! https://twitter.com/coworkfxbg/status/867033797111549953 This is a big day for us at Reclaim Hosting given two short years ago Tim Owens and I were working in … Continue reading
The Dead Moocmen at Domains 17
It’s all but official, on the night of Monday, June 5th a 9:30 PM, the Dead Moocmen will be performing live as part of the Domains 17 conference. I would like to say it was smooth process get them to … Continue reading
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Lauren wrote a nice breakdown of the various projects we’ve been working on at Reclaim Hosting over the last 6 months. It’s cool to see them all detailed in one place, the big three are as follows: CoWork – we took … Continue reading
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a conversation I had with Bryan Mathers at OER17 regarding the new default splash page for new accounts on Reclaim Hosting. I got so taken away with Bryan’s Dali take on Reclaim that I … Continue reading