Blogs Vs. Wikis

Wikis and Blogs are very similar yet different. A wiki is almost like an website that can be accessed and moderated through many different users. A blog on the other hand is a website as well but more of a personal use like I would consider it as if its social media. "Topics are as varied as the humans who blog. In one of the first mainstream media features on blogging in 2000, New Yorker author Rebecca Mead explores the varied blog culture : she learns about a ladies - only bus in Bangkok and undergoes a burrito personality analysis ; she also delves into the roots of Blogger, exploring the love life of a principal in the process".("How can we measure the influence of the Blogosphere" by Kathy Gill) shows that blogs are like an daily diary which is being updated online and you can learn about many people and their experiences. Discussions are taken place in forums for wikis and in comments of a post for blogs. Wikis in general are more broad compared to blogs being simple.


Wikis I believe are more essential because it can provide information about the world. According to a New York Times article "Wikipedia to limit changes to Articles on People " by Noam Cohen " Roughly 60 million Americans visit Wikipedia every month. It is the first reference point for many Web inquiries — not least because its pages often lead the search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Since Michael Jackson died on June 25, for example, the Wikipedia article about him has been viewed more than 30 million times, with 6 million of those in the first 24 hour". You can just see the significance and rapid growth of wikis.


Convergence is very important in todays networked world because it brings people together creating interaction/connection. Different forums/ social media even connects people together. Convergence I believe is the key to interaction in todays world. Blogs can be used for collaboration because like for example you have your own blog and you comment on a specific topic which will lead to people seeing your comment and adding on to that. They may agree or disagree but it will lead to collaboration one way or another. I actually can't think of a new way to use wiki because I believe that it has it all.