About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
You don’t even need a garage to write an iPhone app
Yesterday in class, we tried to set up our BlogPress apps for our
Posted in iPad study, Technical Communication
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“we put the ogle in google”
A critique of Google’s information tracking, asking for viewers to ask Congress for a “Do not track me” list:
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Using WPtouch to make this blog mobile user friendly
Prompted by Eric Stoller’s post on the WPtouch plugin for WordPress, I decided that I should install the theme for mobile browsing. I’m also motivated to do this because one of my goals this term is to work on the … Continue reading
Notes from the Interblags
Hey, let’s get back to some cool stuff I read online recently: • I really like this post from Tenured Radical, which is largely about facebook, faculty meetings, and school starting. In particular, this line is spot-on: If I can … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Notes from the Interblags, Privacy, publics, Technology
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First Week with the iPad in Technical Writing
Week 2 of the term is almost over, and my class has met four times. On Tuesday, we handed out the iPad, and today as a class we downloaded the textbook and apps for the course (paid for with gift … Continue reading
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