Blogs and Wikis have a lot of similarities but blogs
are usually where a person can voiced their opinions. Blogs share many social
roles like contributions and sharing of ideas. From New York Times article,
"Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid," it talks about how a
neighborhood wrote blogs due to suspicious activities in the neighborhood. With
the help of the blogs, the police were able to arrest 3 brothers who now face
conspiracy, drugs and weapons charges. This shows how important blogging is. It
allows people to read important information on what is going on.
Wiki is different from blogs because wiki gives
facts about a topic. Wiki allow people to edit information about a topic. Unlike
blogs where one person post their thoughts, wiki can be edited and updated by
different users. According to the article "How to Use Wikis for
Business" by Ezra Goodnoe, it shows how business uses Wiki to keep their
business updated and edited by other workers. This shows Wiki is trying to
provide facts on their websites rather than people opinions.
Convergence is important in educating people. Back
in the day, people would tell each other stories but now people can read other
people ideas and opinions on the internet. An example is BayRidgeTalk.com, it
converges the people in the neighborhood with news like the arrest of the local
drug dealers.
Wiki can be use to work on programs like
software/hardware. They are always in demand from the people on the internet
and have different teams working on them. It would be easier if they develop
the wiki and then they can input their programming on it.
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