Blogs vs Wikis

     Similar to blogs, wikis are webpages that require an independent authors to contribute to the page. Both webpages are essentially ideas crowd sourced together into one informative page on a particular subject. However, wikis are also very different from blogs because it requires and presents factual information rather than opinion such as what blog does. Blogs on the other hand are only updated chronically and usually update by one author. Wikis on the hand, are updated continuously by any author at any given moment. Blogs can be used for collaboration just like wikis. Blogs, even though have only one author, allows readers to become aware of certain situations with chronically updated information. For example, "But peering turned to blogging, and blogging turned to action, as neighbors started filing complaints with the 68th Precinct station house and attending Community Board 10 meetings and generally making noise until a narcotics investigation began, leading to the arrests." Blogs allowed readers to equally reflect on information and give their judgement to create a integral picture. A new use of a wiki that I can think of is college lecture, why do we need a professor when we can give lectures ourselves. We can type out information anywhere in the world as long as we have internet, why do we need to sit in a place where we don't want to be.



Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid By MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times June 26, 2008


"Stung by the Perfect Sting," By Maureen Dowd, The NY Times, Aug 25, 2009.

Blogs vs Wikis, How Similar are They?

Blogs and wikis are so similar, and yet so different. Both are webpages that relay information from one person to another, both are dependent on the World Wide Web and both require authors to update information on a regular basis. The question I am trying to answer is which one of these two forms of webpages can  give readers more qualitative information, and which one can draw more attention from readers.  The way I will approach this problem is to first fully understand the differences between these two type of webpages, then I will draw up the cons and pros of both, and lastly I will pick a winner that gives more qualitative information base on my observation.