BLOG: Blog v Wiki

To compare and contrast blogs and wikis, a blog is a sort of online journal. It is updated daily or weekly or whenever the author desires. A wiki is a platform that is meant for anyone to update in real time. Moreover, a blog is owned by an individual whereas wiki is being updated by many people around the world. For blogs, the timeline is more important. For wikis, when an article was published matter less, because articles are supposed to be updated as new information becomes available. In addition, blog posts are usually one persons’ opinion, followed optionally by comments. Wiki articles represent consensus, but can have an associated discussion page. A wiki is superset of a blog. A wiki can host a blog but not viceversa. Too emulate a blog in a wiki, the wiki page needs to be protected against editing by other users than the author, and a comment widget needs to be added to the page. The most difference between them is A wiki allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner. A blog is a web site that maintains ongoing posts. A blog is frequently updated, a personal web site featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other websites.

Today’s networked world allows more people to share individual’s information such as thoughts, opinions and ideas. Basically people can learn from each other on thing they don’t know. Everyone can obtain useful information without actually going through books. For instance, the article “A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia” talks about how answers can be found through wiki. The power of sharing information is our today’s networked world.

Nowadays, blogs can be used for collaboration. Pulling together a new project team can be done quickly, even if your team members are spread across the entire world. But putting effective collaboration tools in place tends to take a little more time. However, there is a way to do so quickly using simple blogging tools that lets you get to work with your team, without having to wait on organizational bureaucracy or corporate IT to set up something on the internal network. One of the key benefits of this approach is that you can literally establish a new collaboration site that’s very easy-to-use in a matter of minutes. You can choose your team members and be communicating on a private site without waiting on anyone else. In the article “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” by Michael Wilson, it discusses about how blogger be shared, the review and feedback posted in bloggers be peered and forwarded rapidly. 

In conclusion, some of the social networking tool may seem very similar in the way they appear or might be used. Be able to distinguish the differences between these two tools: Wikis and Blogs helps you be able to select the best tool for your activity or assignment.