It sounds like you have a lot of material on the technical stuff. With digital it is easy to review what you have done and make adjustments before the next shot, so the technical learning process can be quite quick. Harder I think is developing an artistic eye.
I was once advised to spend a lot of time looking at photographic images and other art mediums as well, and work out what I liked about the image and why, or didnt like and why not!
My primary interest is landscape photography, so I spent a long while looking at paintings and photos, making simple line sketches of the compositions that I liked, looking at colour use, form and texture. I then did the same thing when looking critically at my own images, and now will sometimes do it when on location to help me find the right image. All this really helped me understand composition and how to make an image 'work'.
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