Thing 5

I knew a fair amount about online video and podcasts, but officially completed this Thing anyway. Youtube is always a fun way to spend some time and I've listened to a quite a few podcasts from NPR before. I've never used Hulu, although I have streamed TV shows through network websites. Standard TV/cable is slowly on its way out, I think. Even now, I rarely watch live tv, but instead watch shows I've recorded on the DVR.

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to post a video onto my blog. I kept looking for a tab to enter the URL into, but finally just pasted the URL into the text area. Even though I was just seeing the long URL, when I clicked on "preview", the URL had disappeared and the video was in its place. I chose a popular music video with a Rube Goldberg theme, just because I think it is fun. Here it is:



I added the podcast for NPR's "Wait, wait, don't tell me" into my RSS feed. Also NEJM's podcast. I tried finding podcasts from journals more closely related to my medical specialty, but I haven't found any yet. I've heard about universities posting podcasts of lectures and I'd love to find some of those. I'd be interested in learning about various topics just for fun (art history, economics, anthropology, etc).

I spent about an hour on this thing, including checking out all of the podcast search websites (which I added to my delicious bookmarks). I also watched some of the video on the anthropology of youtube. Interesting!