Blogs and Wikis are similar social
networking, their objectives are connecting people together and share news
immediately. However, there are differences that makes them unique. Blog is
alternative to publishing, which individuals can only create a new post on
their personal webpages. Even though, bloggers can comment on other’s posts to collaborate
on the blogger’s idea, but its limited collaboration by individuals can only
make comment to give advices. Blog has blogroll, it helps individual to quickly
link to other blogs. By comparing to blog, Wiki is much more useful in
collaboration and team work. For example, if you post an idea on Wiki, the
whole company can contribute by either edit or revise directly in your post.
Wiki can make idea generation, and create a companywide knowledge base social
network. Blog and Wiki have different thoughts about privacy. According to the
article “No longer the wild west” by John Sutter, he mentioned that in the
past, Wiki frozen some of the sensitive pages about certain people or events,
but now, they decided to make the site more democratic. In the other hand, “Stung by the Perfect Sting” by Maureen Dowd,
Blog became very concern about privacy, they stop
sharing blogger’s email to prevent cyberbullies. Both Blogs and Wikis make
social networking collaborate easily, another new use of Wiki can be add group video
chat while doing idea brain storming, so everyone could have discuss their ideas
before revising other’s Wiki posts.
Cite : Maureen Dowd, Stung by the Perfect Sting
John Sutter, No longer the Wild West
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/26/wikipedia.editors/index.html
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