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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: YouTube
David Simon on America as a Horror Show
If I dig myself out anytime soon I have a pretty fun web project centered around David Simon’s brilliant television series The Wire that I want to run sometime this year. In the meantime, here’s a 26-minute video featuring David … Continue reading
Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee
On Twitter yesterday Luke Walter linked to this video of Muhammad Ali fighting Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on November 14, 1966. It’s a remarkable, high quality display of just how accurate his declaration that he can … Continue reading
Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
This post is part of an inadvertent series of posts about my attempts to fight various media companies claims of copyright infringement on my uploaded YouTube clips. You can see part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and … Continue reading
YouTube, Copyright, and the ongoing Claims on our Culture
This post is part of an inadvertent series of posts about my attempts to fight various media companies claims of copyright infringement on my uploaded YouTube clips. You can see part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here … Continue reading
More News from the YouTube Liberation Front
I have had some fun watching the dispute emails come in from YouTube about the videos I have uploaded over the years. And I am actually excited to report 4 of the last 5 disputes were decided in my favor. … Continue reading
YouTube: You lose most, you win one by default
As I blogged about earlier this week, results of my challenges to YouTube for more than 40 videos have been coming in, and for almost a week I got nothing but rejections (25 in all) of my claims of Fair … Continue reading
James Baldwin on Education
Kudos to YouTube user youwhohear for editing parts of this longer discussion with the great James Baldwin at UC Berkeley in 1974 into a few salient remarks about the crisis of education in the U.S. in 1974. What’s remarkable to … Continue reading
Open Educational Essence
You would need to scan to the 18 minute mark, or just click link below, or just watch it all! https://video.bccampus.ca/media/ETUG+-+What+is+the+value+of+openness/0_wy0s8ymw/37261#t=18:00 This was a video I did in response to the question “What is the value of openness?” for the … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #12 Vidding
I’m currently preparing the next and final creative assignment on fan labor for the penultimate week of ds106 (there will still be an archiving and reflection assignment for the final week). One of the fan labor communities that I think … Continue reading
Locked out of YouTube
I was playing with uploading video to my YouTube account from a hand held device (the video is now featured above) and I got locked out of my YouTube account. This wasn’t the first time this has happened since I … Continue reading