Blog v Wiki

The Internet has greatly changed the technology world, and society in general. It's become so easily available to the world that it's hard to not have access to the Internet. With the development of new media, society tends to spend a tremendous amount of time on the web. Blogs and Wikis are forms of new media that work to provide information on a particular topic with the public through the internet. They are both great sources of free information when you need more insight on a particular subject.

Today, a majority of businesses usually have some sort of blog, and blogging is now even considered a career choice. According to Kathy E. Gill's How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere, the characteristics of blogs include: reverse chronological journaling, regular date-stamped entries, links to related news articles, documents, blogs entries with each entry, archived entries, links to related blogs, RSS or XML feed, and lastly, passion. Overall, blogs act as personal journals and allow for people to focus on topics they care about. They also create a community as well as two-way communication through the use of comments, where readers can open up a conversation on the blog's posts.

On the other hand, Wikipedia defines a wiki as "a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify and structure content directly from a web browser." Unlike blogs, wikis are edited by multiple users. Thus, there is no defined owner. Since there are multiple contributors for a wiki, there's more opportunity for collaboration available. In order to contribute to a wiki, a user just needs a computer, Internet access, a web browser, and a basic understanding of the markup language. There isn't even a need to create or register an account.

Although blogs are usually run by a single individual, they can still be used for collaboration as well. Thanks to the development of hyperlinks, collaboration within blogs is easier than ever. When discussing a certain subject, blogs can use hyperlinks to properly attribute and reference information of posts from various blogs. In addition, because readers can comment on blog posts, this also is another way to collaborate since commenting allows for the expression of opinions, which then opens up further discussion on the topic.


SOURCES:

Wikipedia on Wikis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

How Can We Measure the Influence of the Blogosphere? by Kathy E. Gill. Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, May 2004. available from: http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/www2004_blogosphere_gill.pdf

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  1. Christopher BosompemFebruary 26, 2020 at 8:33 PM

    i love the background for your blog, its very captivating. Your explanation for blogs and wikis is very thorough, great job

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