Assignments: Compare and contrast blogs and wikis. Comment on the importance of
convergence in today's networked world. How can blogs be used for
collaboration? Can you think of a new use for a wiki that has not been
done yet?
Blogs and Wikis are all communication tool that people use nowadays. Based on my personal opinion, Blogs are more personal compared to Wikis to those individuals to express their personal feelings, beliefs, political views, and so on. Blogs is more like your personal page, if you write anything unappropriated articles or comments, it will reveal your personality. According to article Stung by the Perfect Sting, “The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,” says Leon Wieseltier.
On the other hand, Wikis is a more useful in terms of collaboration. At work, the whole company can contribute, posting is relativity easy; at school, the whole class can contribute to this Wiki cite to their best of knowledge. It can be more creative in terms of everyone's ability in certain field, and it's more flexible. According to the article How To Use Wikis For Business, " Wikis can centralize all types of corporate data, such as spreadsheets,
Word documents, PowerPoint slides, PDFs — anything that can be displayed
in a browser." Blogs and Wikis can all provide us the real time information instantly, and people can communication to each other without meeting them in persons. So that our lives become much more easier.
For blog to use of collaboration, bloggers can comment of each others' blogs after reading each one's posting and giving out comments. The new use for wikis can be used in community, neighborhood or any other places, such as posting good restaurants around the neighborhood, barber shops, and so on.
Work Cited:
1. "How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005,http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331
2."Stung by the Perfect Sting," By Maureen Dowd, The NY Times, Aug 25, 2009. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/opinion/26dowd.html
Good points, especially that blogs are used mainly to express personal feelings, beliefs and views; and that both blogs & wikis provide real time information almost instantly without meeting directly. For your new use regarding wikis, that sounds like a cool idea! I guess it would be sort of like Yelp, but with a larger category.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. Yes! my new use of Wiki will be similar to Yelp but is within the community, and can be edited by anyone around the neighborhood. +
DeleteHey Suting,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your blog I came to conclusion that our blog vs wiki has many similarities, and why shouldn't because the main idea of this technology is to deliberated our opinion, thoughts, ideas and statistics in casual and non casual way.