WIKI VS BLOG

Blogs and wiki nowadays have become most convenient in sharing one’s opinion/thoughts. Both are increasingly used by students, corporations as well as for personal use. They both are used to share knowledge and information; however they are different in many ways. Blogs has single author while wiki can have multiple authors. Blogs are mainly chronological views of one person whereas content on wiki can be edited anytime by anyone. Most distinct feature of blog is that readers can respond by commenting/debating on content. Wiki’s content on other hand is hard to rely on completely because of multiple authors editing, however the sources posted below content can be trusted.

                Both communicating tools are emerging to be very famous because of increased web surfing and one can get brief information on anything very quickly. It saves time and is also not tedious as newspapers and magazine as it is accessible anytime. Such tools can be beneficial to society too.  Article named “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” by Michael Wilson exemplifies how a blog from Brooklyn community lead to a drug raiding. This shows how blogs are used in today’s highly networked world.

                Blogs can also be used for collaboration in colleges and other institutes as a part of assignments and group discussion. Also in corporate world it helps to brainstorm various projects or ideas. In the article " How To Use Wikis For Business" by Ezra Goodnoe states that "Although wikis have been around for a decade, they're just starting to take off in business." because they don't know how to arrange stuff. when a team working on the project and can not find where is the latest details of the project then its worthless. that where Wiki helps them to arrange project file and their project details.