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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.
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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: reclaim
Installing Omeka S Alpha on Reclaim Hosting via Command Line
Early yesterday morning I got two requests to setup Omeka S for folks on Reclaim Hosting. The first question I asked myself is, “What the hell is Omeka S?” Thanks to Sharon Leon’s post on the software, I now know: … Continue reading
Reclaim Support for December 2015
I’ve written about Reclaim Hosting‘s stellar support a couple of times already, and out of curiosity I took a quick look at our support statistics for December. Our average response time to new tickets during August, September, and October was 7 minutes, … Continue reading
Personal APIs and Academic Libraries
Roger Schonfeld’s “Improving Privacy by Rethinking Architecture” post on The Scholarly Kitchen blog does an excellent job of exploring the question of privacy and third-party data collection for researchers and academic libraries: By having comparatively little user activity data on their own … Continue reading
Reclaiming an Aesthetic
For about a year and a half now—ever since the Reclaim Your Domain Hackathon in LA—I have been talking about an aesthetic for the Reclaim movement. I think that was probably the wrong approach. A movement probably shouldn’t have just one … Continue reading
Reclaiming 2015
2015 was a rough year on many fronts. In the U.S. racial tensions continued to boil over; the richest few didn’t getting any poorer; mass shootings reached epidemic levels; and American politics have become even more farcical than many thought … Continue reading
Using External SMTP Servers for Forwarded Email with Google Apps Address
In the spirit of Documentation December at Reclaim Hosting, I’m following up on a tutorial I wrote about Sending Mail from a Forwarded Email Address through Gmail. I was having issues adding my [email protected] email account to my Gmail account as a … Continue reading
Reclaim’s Daydream Nation
Spirit desire. – “Teenage Riot,” Daydream Nation Last week we christened yet another host node server at Reclaim Hosting (Fugazi filled up quick!), this one was named after NYC’s indie rock pioneers Sonic Youth. It was interesting timing because the first school we … Continue reading
Domains as Ground Zero for the Struggle over Agency
I was really pleased with Marguerite McNeal‘s article in edSurge on Brigham Young University’s Personal API experiment. It can be hard to explain (at least for me), but she does an excellent job providing an accessible frame for the project by … Continue reading
Reclaim the Portfolio
A university contacted me earlier this week to see if we had anything their faculty might be able to play with in terms of portfolio solutions. Tim Owens created the amazing State University as a demo site for anyone interested experiencing what a Domain of One’s Own … Continue reading
Sending Mail from a Forwarded Email Address (Gmail)
Immediately after my last post for “Documentation December” on Forwarding Email in CPanel, I got a question about whether you can reply to messages sent to that email from the forwarded address. This is possible, and I will try and document … Continue reading