Both Blogs and Wikis are well recognized and utilized in today networked world. A form of communication and collaboration that involved public, or selected group of attendees. Blog allows blogger to self-promote, discuss, advertise, or give feedback to public. Wikis on the other hand is a bit more elaborate and strict on who can view or contribute to the contents. Both Blogger and Wikis provide means to collaborate projects, and communications. Therefore convergence rates in today networked world have increased exponentially. Allows everyone, from any walks of life to come together virtually for a common projects, or discussing subjects.
However there are differences between a blog and wiki. A Blog is short online Diary reflected on author's experiences and opinions that could be shared with public or selected group of people. It is for the purposes of sharing experiences and receiving feedback without having the original post tampered with. It consists of variety of texts, pictures and links to the discussing subject. On the other hand, Wiki is a more text based online space share between invited group of people or students to edit, add, or create new page for specific topics or projects. Therefore there are more collaborations between Wikis users than Blog users. However, extreme cautions are required for Wikis due to a fact that any attendees can make an alteration to the original content. Think of Blog as a single author post and Wikis as a contribution of many authors. Blogs can be used for collaboration by allowing a group of invitees to post and comment on each other work.
Another way for us to utilize Wiki beside school projects is allowing public viewers to comment on the work just like blog but not altering contents. Companies like mine should use wiki to promote innovation and collaboration from the employees to create an efficient way to communicate and contributing ideas.
According to The Atlantic article "Why I blog", http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/why-i-blog/307060/. Blog is made up of web and log. I find it to be well described of what blog is about and why people blog. It's a log of thoughts, experiences and things to share with readers, and commentators. On the other hand, we have wikis, which KMWorld labeled as Wikis - Disruptive Innovation, http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/Wikis--a-disruptive-innovation-15802.aspx. I do agree with the article that wiki provide the means for out of touched people to connect and work collaborate on a project without the need of physical interactions.
I would personally preferred blogging than wikis just because the authentication of my ideas and experiences posted.
I prefer blogs over wikis too. Although, wikis have more contributors and therefore more ideas, I like blogs because they are more personal and I use it as an outlet to vent.
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