tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752705125063919512011-04-21T14:03:34.535-07:00Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-55160990915815443352008-04-15T11:15:00.000-07:002008-04-15T11:20:34.373-07:00Kerckhoff Carriage House<br />725 W. 27th Street<br /><br /><iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=725+W.+27th+Street,+Los+Angeles,+CA&amp;jsv=107&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=32.939885,59.765625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=34.040569,-118.282328&amp;spn=0.008411,0.014591&amp;z=14&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=34.028118,-118.278939&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJpcbQnqP-dhePHm1bXqz-Gzon4EIA"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=725+W.+27th+Street,+Los+Angeles,+CA&amp;jsv=107&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=32.939885,59.765625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=34.040569,-118.282328&amp;spn=0.008411,0.014591&amp;z=14&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=34.028118,-118.278939&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small><br /><br />(West of Fig, north side of street, almost all the way toward the end of the street. The Early Childhood Development Center is located next door.)<br />Street parking.<br />Ring the bell at the door for entry. My office is at the top of the stairs, room 201.<br />My phone number is on the syllabus.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-5516099091581544335?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-75554541710309877652008-04-08T11:28:00.001-07:002008-04-08T11:34:55.548-07:00Free, hosted online forum tools:<li><a href="http://www.invisionfree.com/">InvisionFree</a></li><li><a href="http://www.proboards.com/index.html">ProBoards</a></li><li><a href="http://www.forumsplace.com/">ForumsPlace</a></li><br />The following also support forums, as well additional, social-networking-style functions:<li><a href="http://www.ning.com/">Ning</a></li><li><a href="http://www.yuku.com/">Yuku</a></li><br />Online comments, ratings and polls:<li><a href="http://www.haloscan.com/">Haloscan</a></li><br />Embedded online polls:<li><a href="http://www.twiigs.com/">Twiigs</a></li><br />Flash photo galleries and photo storage:<li><a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252F&service=lh2&passive=true">Picasa</a></li><br />Online video hosting:<li><a href="http://www.blip.tv/">Blip.tv</a></li><li><a href="http://youtube.com/">YouTube</a></li><br />Mapping:<li><a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-7555454171030987765?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-21374418286368394472008-04-01T11:05:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:09:53.307-07:00Five reading assignments, for those folks who missed today's class discussion:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/080305niles/">Keeping your job in journalism</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070814niles/">Encourage entrepreneurship in your newsroom; don't kill it</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/071106niles/">Buying in, not selling out</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060316moor/">Go to the Web, young journalist!</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/make_money/">How to make money on your news content website</a><br /><br />Of course, if you were there today, these make for good reading, as well.<br /><br />The assignment for this week is <b>not</b> for your blog, but for the class e-mail list. Post to the list by Sunday a note describing your strategy for getting work and pursuing your career after graduation. You are invited to respond to the list with your thoughts about other classmates' strategies, as well.<br /><br />(I'll be reading all the e-mails, and will return comments and grades on Tuesday.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-2137441828636839447?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-87345621743878097092008-02-19T12:08:00.000-08:002008-02-19T13:12:31.445-08:00Here is the cheat sheet with the <a href="http://www.robertniles.com/j502-access-campaigns.pdf">step-by-step instructions</a> on how to find, sort, group and report top campaign contributors, using Microsoft Access.<br /><br />Your blog assignment for this week is to find the top 10 individual contributors to federal political campaigns during the current election cycle in either:<br /><li>your home zip code, or</li><li>a profession related to your blog.</li><br />If you select the second option, you should also restrict your report to people within a certain geographic area, such as California.<br /><br />Post the results to your blog, and attribute the data. Write the post up as a blog brief; don't just post the data without context or explanation. If the top contributor is someone that you suspect I haven't heard of before, do a little research and write in the entry a sentence or two explaining who that person is.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-8734562174387809709?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-69519417491238655072008-02-12T10:44:00.000-08:002008-02-12T10:48:10.862-08:00Since the lab has limited hours over the weekend, the video blog assignment will be due at class time, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 9 a.m.<br /><br />Here are the reading assignments for next week's class:<br /><li><a href="http://www.robertniles.com/stats/">www.robertniles.com/stats</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a><br /><br />Here is the OJR guide to <a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/video/">shooting video for the Web</a>.<br /><br />And here are the two multimedia packages we looked at in class today: <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/everestbeyond/everestbeyond.html">Not Just a Number</a> and <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/everestbeyond/everestbeyond.html">Everest: Beyond the Limit</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-6951941749123865507?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-67719004923335491592008-02-06T12:22:00.000-08:002008-02-07T08:41:12.864-08:00Here is the USC Annenberg Digital Lab's <a href="http://www.robertniles.com/robert/exportingquicktime.pdf">instructions</a> on configuring Avid to export a video for upload to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>.<br /><br />Also, here are several sites you can use to create embedded Flash photo galleries for your blog:<br /><li><a href="http://www.photobucket.com/">Photobucket</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.slide.com/">Slide</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.snapfish.com/">SnapFish</a><br /><li><a href="http://www.webshots.com/">Webshots</a><br /><br />Your call on which service works best for you.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-6771900492333549159?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-10111384316776862392008-01-22T10:36:00.001-08:002008-01-22T10:37:23.070-08:00Your reading assignments for this week provide an introduction to Hypertext Markup Language [HTML].<br /><br /><a href="http://www.robertniles.com/html/">http://www.robertniles.com/html/</a><br /><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Overview.html">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Overview.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html">http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-1011138431677686239?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575270512506391951.post-21112519670026296072008-01-15T11:21:00.001-08:002008-01-15T11:22:33.411-08:00Here is the class blog for Robert Niles' section of J502 at the University of Southern California.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.robertniles.com/J502.pdf">Class syllabus</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575270512506391951-2111251967002629607?l=j502.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03126791691695930260noreply@blogger.com0