Coincidentally, the same week that Howard Rheingold presented at Internet Librarian 2008, TED published a blog post aggregating a few of their talks dealing with online collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies. The Rheingold talk echoes much of what he said at IL, so if you missed his great talk, you can watch this similar one.
A week or so ago, I wondered if Blu-Ray had won the format wars. I have my answer: according to Information Week, Toshiba plans to stop making HD DVD players.
Coming just a little over a month after Warner Bros. announced they were going exclusively with Blu-Ray, Best Buy and Netflix announce that they are heading that way as well.
Wired reports that Netflix will be going exclusively with Blu-Ray, and ComingSoon.net reports that, although Best Buy will still carry HD DVD, it will “prominently showcase Blu-ray hardware and software products.”