Blog vs. Wiki

Blogs and Wikis are not the same, although many people don't know the difference. Wikis are known to be a site where more than one person contributes to a work. Wikis can be edited and updated. In the NY Times article, Wikipedia Looks Hard at its Culture, people want to contribute to Wikis and it is encouraged. Blogs usually have one author and its more personal than a Wiki. Wikis don't need to be personal.. Wikis can be used for business, work or pleasure. Blogs are known to be more personal and usually contains opinions/thoughts and they invite conversation between blog users. 

Today, everything is on the internet. Most things require the internet now and so as people grew up in this new connected world, eventually it created a need for things like blogs and wikis. They both connect users in a way that was never before possible. They connect users all around the world and they help us receive information faster. Blogs can be collaborative in the same way that Wikis can be collaborative. For example, Wikis are known to be used for group projects to connect group members from around the globe.. Blogs can potentially do the same thing. Another way is to protect communities, as explained in Brooklyn Blogs Helps Lead to Drug Raid. Brooklyn has a very important blog that seems to have escalated from just a local community activities/news board to reporting police reports about things happening in the area. People in the community started reading this blog and taking action to inform the police which led to arrests and solved cases.

Cohen, Noam. “Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 30 Aug. 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/business/media/31link.html.

Wilson, Michael. “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 June 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html.