Thing 12. YouTube.

I was looking forward to having a look at YouTube because a lot of what I had heard was about it being the home of funny video clips. However, it is so much more! Having purchased a new tent I was keen know how to put it up, and to my delight, Vango have put a video on there, showing exactly how to do it. I imagine I will be looking at it a few times. I also looked at a tongue-in-cheek video advertising Plymouth University Library, made by some media students, which explained how the Library was under appreciated. My favourite comment from one student was that they only ever used Wikipedia, as it contains absolute facts.
Of course, I had to watch the Susan Boyle audition for Britain's Got Talent. Amazing.

Thing 11. Podcasts

I was quite keen to try the podcasts as my husband usually does the downloading of the CBeebies podcasts for my daughter each week, and I've never had a go myself. I was keen to listen to the complete interview between Chris Moyles and Katie Price last week, as I only caught the tail end, so my first subscription was to the Chris Moyles show, which naturally went hand in hand with Scott Mills, so I thought I would have him too. There is a chance I may subscribe to something more meaningful...

Lucy and Toby sledging

Sledging fixed
Originally uploaded by EYendell

I thought I'd have a go at pushing a photo over from Flickr once I had edited it in Picnik. Ta da!

Thing 10. Social bookmarking and tagging

Hmm. I'm not sure I liked this very much. For some reason I couldn't get to any of the pages by cutting and pasting the names in the way the instructions suggested, so I managed to find the Libraries by using a different search, and adding them to my network by saying "Yes" to a question. So, I managed it in the end and chose VHL and Languages. I did manage to subscribe to an RSS feed from VHL, and get it fed to my Google reader. I imagine if I was studying, that would be really handy to have up to date information from the Libraries I used.

Thing 9: Social bookmarking and tagging

I'm all in favour of having my bookmarks easily accessible, so this looked like a good way of doing it, especially as you can tag them to link them together.
I'm not sure if this is something I would use outside of 23 things, but it looks okay. I'm about to see if I can add more tags to my bookmarks retrospectively... here goes.

Thing 8. Picnik

I was really interested to try this image editing site, as I've become quite used to using Photoshop CS2. I have to say I'm really impressed. I chose photos to upload that I knew needed tweaking and got some good results. I've had a go at turning a regular photo into black and white, with a vignette, with good results. The site is really intuitive, and for basic image editing I would consider using this again.

Thing 7. Create a Flickr account

This week is about something I know a little about, so that's great. I've never used Flickr before (being a photobox gal), but have been into digital photography since I was given a DSLR nearly 6 years ago. Flickr was really easy to use and I managed to upload a few images, plus a movie. I'm looking forward to trying the Piknik editing next...

Thing 6. Find more feeds

After subscribing to two colleagues feeds, to get myself going, I started off with choosing the BBC news feed, as I vaguely remembered seeing the image on there somewhere, and thought the beeb might ease me in gently. After that, I was stuck. I must be interested in something, so I remembered that occasionally i dusted off my DSLR and went mad taking photos of everything that moved or in fact didn't move, so I found a Camera review feed to make me sound knowledgeable. Next, I thought about the last CD I bought- yes, I still prefer to have a physical item in my hand, not a download, although I'm not sure I should admit that it was Lady Gaga's Fame monster (it is in fact brilliant). So I'm subscribing to her too. Quality.

Thing 5 Google reader

This task took me a little bit longer, as I discovered that I had unwittingly already signed up for the feed. So, to check I had done it properly, I unsubscribed and resubscribed using the instructions. Today I can appreciate how my parents feel where new technology is concerned and it's not good!