Blog v Wiki



I think the main difference between blogs and wiki's is that blogs share one person's idea where wiki's is a collaboration of ideas. What you post in a blog is your own idea whereas what you post on a wiki can be edited by someone else and vice versa. In the New York Times article, "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid" by Michael Wilson, blogging helped the police out, "the bloggers seemed to know, sometimes chronicling daily activities in details" this shows how blogs are one person's perspective. Both are created by individuals.

One use that be used for a wiki that hasn't been done yet is posting directions. I know there is apple and google maps but sometimes they can be very difficult to read or understand and sometimes they are just wrong and at the end of the day. I rather trust a person that has been to the location tell me how to get there rather than a computer. The main issue with this and all wikis is trust. However, in the New York Times Article, "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People" by Noam Cohen, "it will divide Wikipedia's contributors into two classes: experienced, trusted editors, and everyone else altering Wikipedia's implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to edit entries." So the same can be done here.

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  1. OlesiaIvanyshynetsFebruary 25, 2020 at 10:23 PM

    Yong,
    It is great to see how different Blogs and Wikis are but how important and useful they could be. I think that Wiki is the great tool for an effective teamwork while Blog is the safe environment to share important knowledge.

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