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Testimonials:
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.
I am Jim Groom
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Tag Archives: reclaimcloud
Installing Manifold on Reclaim Cloud
Have I mentioned it’s container month at Reclaim Edtech recently? Well, it is and that means I’m playing with installing apps, or even re-visiting apps we’ve already gotten running, which is the case here. Tim Owens already documented the process … Continue reading
Installing BookStack on Reclaim Cloud
It’s officially Container Month at Reclaim Edtech, so I wanted to get in the spirit and record a quick howto stream for installing BookStack on Reclaim Cloud. But first, what the hell is BookStack? BookStack is a lightweight, open source … Continue reading
ds106.club SSL Notes
Whenever I have some downtime I inevitably end up playing with one of the many silly sites I have accumulated over time. This morning it was the throwback Apache server ds106.club. If the logs are correct, I return to it … Continue reading
Migrating Ghost from Community Image to Docker Engine Installer on Reclaim Cloud
When sending out the April installment of Reclaim Roundup we ran into a glitch wherein the instance was faltering sending an email to all subscribers once that number topped 500. I assumed it was an issue with our third party … Continue reading
WordPress in the Cloud
One of the things I have been doing a lot of over the last few months is talking to folks about running WordPress in Reclaim Cloud. In particular, why would you want/need to? -and how to migrate an existing instance … Continue reading
Bava Multi-Region Cluster Cause I Can!
This is a test to see if I can post after having migrated this blog to a WordPress multi-region setup on Reclaim Cloud, which means the primary blog hosted in the UK is being replicated to Toronto, Canada and the … Continue reading
Talking Open Source Media Ecosystems on #ds106radio
Taylor Jadin and I chatted for about an hour on Friday about some of the work we did earlier in the week upgrading Azuracast to the latest version for the mighty ds106radio. Spoiler alert: the upgrade did not work, but … Continue reading
NYCDH: It’s All Support and Containers These Days
After my very rough workshop on Reclaim Cloud at last year’s NYC Digital Humanities (NYCDH) Week event, I was surprised the good folks reached out again this year. That said, I jumped at the opportunity to sit on a panel … Continue reading
Professional Development in the Cloud
I am just coming off a couple of hours of watching Stephen Downes work his way through some of my Ghost tutorials. It’s not only quite useful for me to watch someone make heads or tails of my tutorials, but … Continue reading
Configuring Email for a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud
When I first installed Ghost many a year ago the most difficult element of setting it up was getting mail working. I used Mailgun for the first time during that process, and since then API-driven mail services have become pretty … Continue reading