Blog v. Wiki



With the growing footprint of technology in our lives, a majority of people have come across blogs and wikis while surfing the internet. While both sources of media serve as fountains of knowledge for people, there are some differences that diverge the two sources. 
A blog is an online page where an exclusive group of authors writes entries onto their online page. Depending on the blog, the main purpose of the blog can vary in terms of information. Some blogs serve as personal journals while other blogs serve as an outlet of information that consumers can intake. As the type of information varies drastically from page to page, the audiences of blogs vary as well. For example, the 2008 BayRidgeTalk.com Brooklyn blog was drawing tons of attention from neighborhood residents to keep up with the local news. Unfortunately, in some parts of Brooklyn, residents were active on the blog because of the high traffic of drug dealing and homicides in their neighborhoods. One resident fearfully stated, “there have been two deaths in a one-block radius up here. One was definitely an overdose and the other is suspect...” With multiple different testimonies being posted onto this Brooklyn blog, police were able to capitalize on the collaborations of residents and raid the harmful drug dens (Wilson). The 2008 Brooklyn drug den raid displays blogs range in purposes and use. 
On the other hand, a wiki is an online web page that allows for a large pool of people to edit the page’s information. Typically, Wikis exist to provide information to consumers, and the style of writing is more formal than Blogs. However, recent practices and implementations of wikis within the business sector have shown a different benefit to using a wiki. To explain, a wiki is almost never a single person job; therefore, in order to create, design, and maintain a wiki, tremendous amounts of collaboration and communication is warranted to make the wiki successful. Due to the need of teamwork, many companies have utilized wikis to practice and implement successful information flow within groups in their companies (Goodnoe 2).
Similar to blogs, institutions have been exploiting the indirect benefits of wikis to promote and achieve success. With the era of technology just beginning, and the internet becoming greater on a daily basis, blogs and wikis have exponential potentials for growth.   

Work Cited

Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid By MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times June 26, 2008 available at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html 

"How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005, http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331


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