Blog vs Wiki

Blog is a personal website on which a particular person can post their opinions, links to other sites, etc.  Posts are usually regular dated and reverse chronological format. People most of the time have discussions on their blogs with other bloggers. Visitors can leave comments and other messages. In result, bloggers through those comments build a relationship with their readers. Moreover, subjects not necessary have to be posted by single author; posts written by the group of authors become popular, too. Blogs become used by newspapers, media, universities, and some professionals like lawyers or doctors.

            Web application called wiki allows everyone to add, modify, or delete some information in collaboration with others. It differ from the blog that contents written in wiki do not have any particular owner or leader. Wiki is more likely to be anonymous. Both of the websites can be used by everyone in the world. People in both websites can post their opinions, comments other people's contributions, or collaborate in the group. Also, wiki is very often used in the variety of business fields because it simplifies collaboration between people. In the article How to use Wikis for Business, Ezra Goodnoes explains that in some way wiki helps in collaboration between team members. She says that Wikis can centralize all types of corporate data, such as spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, or PDFs. It is easier and cheaper way to improve functionally, security and durability in the company.

            The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia from the contribution of the volunteers. With the time, wiki also wants to include some changes. According to the article Wikipedia to limit changes to articles on people written by Noam Cohen, in order to do changes, an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go leave. Until the change is approved, it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia’s servers, and visitors will be directed to the earlier version. Some changes are required because 60 million Americans visit Wikipedia every month; some changes are a must to make a website more credible. I think that wiki is the website that is enough easy to use. There should not be done any changes because it would become more difficult for the users.  There is no need to add any new use for wiki because it already fulfills its role.

It is very important that the websites like wiki and blog allow all people from any place in the world share their ideas, opinions and thoughts. Because of it, people can learn from each other and get to know each other better. It provides more ways to communicate. People have better access to services and are more aware of what service providers they can use. Thanks of convergence; people are allowed to use different ways to transmit voice, video signal and data to homes and business.

            In order to increase collaboration in the blog, we have to introduce ourselves. We have to be more familiar for the readers, so they would be willing to post some comments. We also have to replay for the comments in order to show that we respect someone’s opinion.