Blogs vs. Wikis

There are many differences as well as similarities between blogs and wiki. Wikis allow people from all over the world to edit and collaborate. Blogs, on the other hand, are platforms which are more personal and there is only one contributor to the content (limited collaboration). Blogging can also be used for collaboration if you choose to not make your blog private. The important difference is that wikis is collaborative editing by many users. Others can't collaborate in terms of the main content in blogs, but they can give feedbacks or thoughts through commenting. Both wikis and blogs share information that are not tailored by professionals. Anyone can start writing and contributing to them. The article, "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia," a VP for a team management, needed a way to organize a project's details all in one place. He choose Wiki so that each members could contribute and access the up to date information on the project. In addition, according to a New York Times article, "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid," a group of seven people who collaborated through a blog busted some drug dealing happening in their neighborhood, which helped authorities to use this information to make several arrests. This shows that through their blogging, a successful police investigation took place which would've been impossible before. Convergence in today's technological advanced world is very important because it allows minds from all over the world to come and share ideas that help us grow/succeed/understand. Media has allowed industries to grow in creativity and innovation. It also helps globalization in the sense that it makes the world a smaller place (and fosters community).