Jack in a Box

Yes, he really is called Jack!

Now the pressure's off, I'm enjoying reading people's blogs and getting ideas to improve my own and taking a more in depth look at some of the tings we've learned.

I've just put a new gadget on my blog to show recent comments.

I like the idea someone had of morphing our blogs to continue after 23 things...I'm getting a new digital camera so hope to post lots of photos...watch this space!

The End!

First of all a big thank you to the 23 thing organisers.

Absolutely brilliant.

I enjoyed every minute...except where I got stuck at delicious which put me off for a good few weeks, resulting in a mad rush from about thing 6 in the last few days!

Ironically delicious was what appealed to me most, but had the most difficulty with.

There are still many questions, which I hope I will be motivated to go and find out for myself, when 23 things finishes.

I have learnt so much in addition to the 23 things, such as discovering easier ways of getting around my screen, which have made life so much easier.

One of the highlights has been learning from other people and reading their blogs - do they stay forever? Will we continue to update and use them?

I feel rather self-conscious writing my blog, but then think to myself, no-one is actually reading this, and just write for the 23 things panel who will probably be the only people who have to read this waffle!

I would like to take time to read more of blogs, and find out who they all are!

I feel a bit lost now not having something new to learn and write about! I think we need a 23 things party!

Bring on 24-46 things! I'm sure there's loads more we can do!

Delicious Gadget on i-google

That was cool as well - I was wondering if this was possible when we set up delicious because I have to have so many different pages to keep tabs on, but this is a great solution to having everything in one place.

With a bit of work I could really get i-google to have all the things I really want on it. I don't use the things I have on it at the moment so it's a bit of a waste of space.

Will make this thing 24 for me!

Blogger Gadget Photostream

I always wondered how people did this...and now I know!

This is a really easy one that has great effect.

Need to spend a bit more time playing around with the layout of my blog so that my recent posts don't go down the pages such a long way, and move the photo stream so that people can see it, and not have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to see them.

Great gadget!

Think Free

Interesting and useful to see another service offering documents and document management.

My laptop has finally given up with all the multiple 23 things I'm asking it to do and has crashed tonight, I think it was the google form / questionnaire that I tried to create for thing 19 - and that would have been my favourite thing if it had worked!

I can see light at the end of the tunnel!

Google Docs

Another great discovery from 23 things! Great way to share documents or easy way to always have access to your documents.

I created a quick document and sent it to the 23 thing organisers, and was very excited to set up a questionnaire in the form style, but ran into problems, I think at the google end when it crashed and wouldn't save as a form, or email to anyone, and then would only save as a spreadsheet.

Sorry I couldn't achieve this thing completely!

Wikipedia

Every time I visit Wikipedia it's changed - there's been a new layout or a new category of information.

Just as you think the world is getting smaller, when you can chat with friends in Australia on facebook and find friends you haven't seen in years, Wikipedia makes you realise how big the world actually is!

I'm a bit nervous about editing something in Wikipedia, so haven't done that yet, but if I do see something that needs correcting I know I can do this now thanks to 23 things!

Wiki

Another great discovery thanks to 23 things! I didn't know about wikis apart from wikipedia which I've used as an online encyclopedia of all things!

23 things has made it easy to use because we just follow the link, which I've now saved in my favourites (should really be in delicious!)

I am pleased to report that I found my way around the oxford libraries web 2.0 wiki without too much trouble and created yet another sign-on!

Straight away I found a useful thread about setting a counter on a blog, which I hadn't managed to set up from the blog, but this is an external site http://www.sitemeter.com/ which provides lots of useful stats about your viewers.

As I thought I have a big fat 0 of viewings so far, but here is what the graph diplay looks like:



So for thing 17 I've replied to this thread, and also set up a new thread about word clouds that I discovered via 23 things earlier in delicious.

It was quite fun contributing to a wiki, although I'm not sure how many people look at them and therefore the value of putting things on it, my worry would be that all this useful information goes untapped.

I didn't manage to edit anything, although I did notice that the address is still socialouls but I guess this is more difficult to change!

Exciting Discovery

Oh I'm very excited...I've just discovered a way of finding all my previous pages, by using a drop down arrow by my back arrow on my internet explorer bar at the top left of my screen...how quick is that, just move between all my pages...yipee.

I now have 23 things overload, so will pause on a successful note!

Only a couple of days to do the remaining 7 things...will it be possible???

Twitter

Aha! All is explained...I should be using the hashtag to find fellow 23 thingers!

Honestly I have so many tabs and pages and links open I don't know what's going on, and the one page I want to find again is lost behind a load of other pages that I've journeyed through...

So, thing 16 has shown me a new tweet search page, and hash tags, although I don't think I can follow a hashtag but I've saved it anyway.

Is this another website I need to check for updates? So now I'm checking my emails, facebook, twitter, blogs for comments, I'm sure there's more;-)