Blog v Wiki

Blogs are known as a website that one writer writes about in posts that are in a diary type style. While wikis are known to be a website that has multiple writers that write on one page about the same concept or idea. Blogs and wiki's have their own advantages but also have their own disadvantages.

When I was first introduced to blogs was in high school, it was known that everyone had a xanga weblog. It was more about writing about your daily life and if something interesting happened then you would receive eProps from your friends. Now when people associate with blogs, it’s more of a fuller and richer content rather than nonsense about a person to do list. There are homemakers that have blogs that help other new parents with tip and trips of parenting. Some bloggers write about food and others about travel. These users generated content gives today's networked world more enrichment and innovation.

Blog’s can be used for collaboration but it would be difficult to have a final deliverable. The reason for this is because blogs are usually written with one account holder rather than from multiple accounts. As stated in "How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, when working on a team project it could be a nightmare for the document management because of “Spreadsheets and Word documents get passed around, and nobody’s quite sure who has the most recent version.” From personal experience in a work environment, it is hard to keep track of updated documents when there are multiple users that need to edit one document. If I knew how easy it would be to use wikis, then I would have suggested it. In “An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified” by Noam Cohen, has given an example of Diplopedia which is being used within a business. It states how many are registered users, the contributions to the page and who views the pages.

Wikis are currently used as a place to share information about any given topic. It can be a knowledge base, documentation center, managing specific projects, and a local communication center for people. The idea I have in mind for a new use would be since it’s a centralized location that a fair playing ground for people to discuss about specific topics currently plaguing society. An example of a topic would be about human rights, sexuality, religion, racism, and even about our freedoms. I watched a video today that was called Shocking DNA results show our real backgrounds, and the first thing I thought after watching is that everyone is single minded and only thinks race is better than everyone else but once you see where you as a person is really made up of from which backgrounds is when you see things in a different light. If a new use of wiki can open up someones eyes to see that things are not only in a single context then maybe it would be a bigger and better thing in the future.