A couple of weeks ago Paul Bond reached out asking if I wanted to discuss Jack London’s 1908 dystopian novel The Iron Heel. I had recently read White Fang with my kids, so I was definitely game. I had heard the novel described as a kind of pedantic …
Recently on Twitter, Jöran Muuß-Merhol reminded me of a discussion we had back in 2016 at the OER Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
This podcast with @jimgroom on the beauty and the messiness of #learning is one of my favorites! (Only the first 2 minutes are in German.) https://t.co/5uoUMmTMyZ #OER16 #OER18…
Faculty Academy 2006
I mentioned in this post last month that the Faculty Academy sites were down. I discussed this with Martha and realized all the Faculty Academy sites had been created as an independent network within UMW Blogs, and given the plugin we used to do that has …
I’ve been back in the Burg for the last 10 days working from Reclaim’s HQ on a range of stuff. As a result the bava has been a bit quiet given the push to get as much done as possible in a relatively short time frame. I’ve been able to …
Well, I spent much of this morning configuring my computer for the first episode of The Monogamous Podcast. I use Alan Levine’s Rube Goldberg machine to broadcast on ds106rad.io. I am gonna leave a screenshot of my Ladiocast settings for future reference below:
That worked a treat, and …
Yesterday was a special day, Reclaim Hosting grew to four full-time employees with the hiring of Meredith Fierro. Four is the perfect number for a super group, wouldn’t you agree? Needless to say, the costumes are on order. Meredith worked as an intern in Spring, a part-time employee over …
At the bottom of the hour I will be doing a set on #ds106radio. Do I have anything planned? Of course not! https://t.co/DQNyRE6sLp
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) March 27, 2017
As promised, I have made a subtle return to ds106rad.io. I always have the hankering, but momentum (or …
Been a while since I jumped on the Daily Create train, but I could not resist today’s OG throwback in honor of ds106 hall of famer Sarah Kountz:
It is a testament to Sarah’s insanity that among all the things I could think about on Valentine’s Day, such as over-sized …
Bryan Mathers siphoned off some booty to Italy from the Reclaim Hosting motherload. We secured a bunch of stickers by backing Visual Thinkery’s Indiegogo campaign, and I’m glad we did. I really love the stickers visually, and they are also quite functional because many of them, like the USA Eagle stamp …
Guys, its going to be like #ds106 all the time: @ReclaimHosting acquires @fredxfoundryhttps://t.co/WNttJ9spEH
— Lindley Estes (@flsLindley) December 20, 2016
Lindley Estes caught up with Tim Owens yesterday to talk about the new Reclaim Hosting offices in Fredericksburg. Tim and Lauren have already written about the space, and …
This post has sat in draft for almost three weeks while I finished traveling and decompressing from a month traveling. Like Cogdog, I have been a tired blogger these days, but unlike Alan I haven’t always been able to push through it. But maybe that’s not all bad, because …
Credit “Ask not what you can do for #ds106 …” poster by Alan Levine
This past Sunday I was honored to be a guest on the very last episode of Mariana Funes and John Johnston‘s podcast the ds106 Goodspell. They have been talking in detail about 106 bullet …
My own personal web monitoring system, Alan Levine, sent me this tweet Friday:
@jimgroom what the ~ happened to https://t.co/sKXA0liG9y ?
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 8, 2016
Turns out ds106.club was down, and I’m pretty sure a quick reboot would have cured it. But it actually was pointing …
I finally got around to playing with Tom Woodward‘s Erasure Poetry SPLOT (smallest possible learning online tool?) on the VCU’s Artfulness site. I knew of the process of removing text from a page of text to create a tight, terse phrase or poem as Newspaper Blackout Poetry, …
A week ago the new Wonder Woman movie trailer was released at Comic Con. I’m not sure if it’s going to be any good, and it’s not getting any easier to stomach the super hero movie slop they keep dishing out, but this is yet another one I won’t …
I am still playing with John Johnston’s cartoon script command line kung-fu using scenes from The Shining. You can see yesterday’s Punch and Judy show here. Today I wanted to try and play with some of the scenes of Danny on his Big Wheel. Seems like it would …
I’m in a ds106 state of mind these days. In particular, I’ve been meaning to dig into all the amazing work John Johnston has been doing with command line tools over the last several years. I always looked on in wonder, but todayI decided to stop internet rubbernecking and get …
Back in 2011 #ds106 had a Minecraft server my friend Zach Davis setup for us, the need for a sysadmin just 5 short years ago seemed far greater then
I was asked yesterday if we host Minecraft servers at Reclaim Hosting, to which I responded no. One of the great …
Today’s Daily Create submitted by Kevin Hodgson is a beauty. And it also is a hot tip to cool little bookmarklet tool that prints out a sheet of stills from a YouTube video. Turns out I watched Jules Dassin’s 1947 noir classic Brute Force for the first time last …
I took a quick shot at yesterdays Daily Create, which was make your own damn assignment I noticed Terry Greene had suggested creating your own band t-shirt, and I was off. T-shirts are my business these days, so I figured it was time bavatuesdays got a t-shirt! …
Today’s Daily Create, Paperback Paradise, is a fun one:
Search the web for an old paperback cover and use that as starting point for a new cover. Sure you can use this one, but that makes it easy…
I was immediately taken with this one because I love design …
This is my entry for today’s Daily Create:
You look for a representation of DS106 in the world, and you find something close, but [not] quite it. Find something like that.
Heck today’s tag #tdc1607 is like that. Almost a 106 but not.
I have been looking at the …
Seems like there is someone who will not be named making bootleg #ds106 socks. What’s more, 4 pair were delivered to my door this afternoon in a neatly packed bundle.
And given the resulting strife from the perceived notion that certain backers did not get their appropriate socks due, I …
I don’t know how many ways we can count the genius of Alan Levine on the web, but add this Storify to the mounting evidence. And how about recent ds106 all-star Terry Greene playing some insane Lebowski GIF tennis? I’m more than happy the #sockgate fervor has died down, it …
