Blogs vs. Wikis

Blogs and wikis have many similarities, but are different in the sense on how they are used.  Blogs are usually a social media outlet used by one person to express thoughts, opinions or feelings.  Blogs are an effective way for it's user to portray there own opinions to their audience and get feedback through the comments left by the viewers.  While wikis can also be used by a person to express thoughts, feelings or opinions it is usually a place of collaboration for multiple people to provide information to the viewers.  The major difference between blogs and wikis is that there us no need for a comment section for an audience since everyone has the ability to make changes to the content of the pages.  Blogs can be seen as a good way to provide information without the interference of the possibility that a person can edit the information while providing false facts.  However, wikis provide a sense of convergence and collaboration that can be seen as beneficial to the information provided.  For example as stated in the "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia" article, "wikis are very good for a departmental project" and proceeds to explain that it will be highly likely that you will encounter international wikis used for collaboration projects.  Wikis can be seen to be extremely beneficial to a company who does business internationally since it will provide an easy way to have ideas presented instantaneously anywhere in the world at anytime promoting a sense of convergence. Blogs can also have tremendous impacts for a society.  For example in the article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid," people were blogging about drug activity in their neighborhoods, which lead to a conversation and an eventual drug bust in the neighborhood.  This shows how much of an impact a blog could make.  Just by speaking up on social media authorities were able to listen and put a stop to the crimes being committed.