Blog v Wiki

We live in a society where we share information through many communicable means. Thanks to Internet which helped us, built many communicable associations that has made our life convenient and simple. Blogs and wiki are one of those means that we can’t block of knowing. Both are meant for providing information and sharing knowledge. However, having so much of similarities, there are still many differences, which are actually beneficial where it stands.

Blog is simple and easy to create. Actually, it is like talking to someone presenting or expressing your ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc. on certain topic. A certain person creates a blog and few other people follows it and add comments on such topic. Blogs are collaborative.  According to Michael Wilson, “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid,” says “A group of people who did not know each other came together and traded information.” In other words, these group of unfamiliar people came together and shared their information to get rid of those drug dealers from their neighborhood. This action happen because of the blog that one created and made them all one to become a strength to go to the authorities to talk on the disturbing things happening in the neighborhood.

Similar to Blog, wiki is also simple and easy to create. It is also one of the way to communicate to people. However, unlike blog which is limitless meaning it is created and can be edited by only one person who has created. Wiki is more of limitless where everyone can get in there and edit it with their own knowledge of understanding. Wiki is also collaborative. According to The New York Times, “Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People,” it says, “And for seven months beginning in November, The New York Times worked with Wikipedia administrators to suppress information about the kidnapping of David Rhode, a correspondent in Afghanistan, from the article about him.” In other words, like the newspaper, wiki also holds the information and even they have collaborate together for more information so that people who knew more about any case could enter their knowledge and share it to the world.

In my opinion, both blog and wiki are a great thing to get use and share. However, blogs are much of like communicating with ideas, thoughts and opinions on certain topics and it is not much of accuracy compared to wiki because wiki can be edited by enormous people and has link on them which verifies the accuracy and more reliable. Finally, I think every companies or organization should have their wiki because for example “SAP Developer Network” has a wiki and it would be easier to search for the information, different collaborative ideas, etc.