BLOG: Blog Vs. Wiki

The internet has grown in many ways people did not see coming. Over the last 20 years, the internet has exploded into an ever-growing organism, evolving to fit every days new wants and needs. As a testament to how much the internet has grown overtime, one can simply focus on two forms of media. The blog and Wiki spaces. In many ways, these two forms of media are extremely similar, both provide for a way to share information in a quick succinct way, making digging through extremely technical databases and extensive libraries obsolete in todays information sharing age (except in certain cases). However in many ways they cater to different purposely on a deeper level. A Wiki is more based around a collaborative, with many companies using it as a way for team members to work together on a project as a collective. For example, in "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia", Margaret Locher states in the second paragraph that "Diverse organizations, including businesses, schools and government agencies are waking up to the benefits of wikis" later explaining that it improves "information sharing and collaboration.... by making it easier to gather and share information as well as record discussions about a subject". Meanwhile, on the other side, a Blog is mainly used by one person or team to oversee content, and then have discussions going down the blog as comments. In "How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere" by Kathy E. Gill, She explains in section 1.2 that "they [blogs] foster community and conversation by allowing readers to comment on postings". In essence, a blog is a more controlled approach to creating a collaborative community of thinkers on a topic, while a Wiki is more of a team based collective approach to creative a community.

Sources:
1: Locher, Margaret. “More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia.” CIO, CIO, 17 Apr. 2008, www.cio.com/article/2436789/more-on-how-to-build-your-own-wikipedia.html.
2: Gill, Kathy E., "How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere", Department of Communication, Mar. 2004, University of Washington

Comments

  1. Domingo RemigioOctober 3, 2019 at 12:51 PM

    Hello Brannon,

    You have summed up the core essence of a Blog and Wiki when you had stated: “a blog is a more controlled approach to creating a collaborative community of thinkers on a topic, while a Wiki is more of a team-based collective approach for the creative community.” I’d also like to further add to your comments that the reasons for their popularity as collaborated, sharing and expressive applications are because they are both mostly free or low cost and they are easy to operate since anyone with little or non-technical experiences can learn how to use them to create posts or entries. This means that anyone can create and have their own Wiki or blog for either personal or business purposes and it can be either private with a select few having access, kept behind a corporate intranet pass protected firewall or open to the public for anyone to read, comment or add info. I believe that, apart from what you already added on your blog post “both provide for a way to share information in a quick succinct way,” and what I just pointed out in regards to price and usability, this is where the similarities end since as you also pointed out they have distinct purposes and uses that cater towards different users and audiences.  

    I imagine that in the future Wiki’s and Blogs will eventually merge together to create a new form of collaborated hybrid that will utilize technology from both to create a robust user-friendly interface experience where they will provide more functionality and flexibility. But, they will probably also their will also be a convergence between blogs, Wiki's and other forms of new media technology such as social media networkers (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and vlogs (YouTube) and other forms of new media technology.

    I have a question Brannon, how do you envision the future of these two technologies in the future?

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