A blog
is where you can give or get option and ideas in something and a Wiki is where you can get or give facts about somethings.
Melissa
Gerrt wrote in Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media “Through blogs, people
are able to write about topics that interest them and comment freely on
what is going on in their lives and in the world around them.” More on How to Build YourOwn Wikipedia by
Margaret Locher wrote, “By making it easier to gather and share information as
well as record discussions about a subject, wikis (familiar as the software
behind online encyclopedia Wikipedia) can help people improve their processes and get
projects done faster.” We can see that both a Blog and Wiki give you different
kind of information. A Wiki is more useful in a big company because it lets
co-worker interact with one another without saying a word to each other. In the
article by Margaret Loche talks about how a wiki is useful in a company, “Diverse
organizations, including businesses, schools and government agencies, are waking
up to the benefits of wikis—one of the group of Web-based applications designed
to improve information sharing and collaboration known collectively as Web
2.0.”
A blog
can be used for collaboration because you have a Blogroll. I think a blogroll
would help in a collaboration because you know when someone is working on the
blog and what they have wrote. Melissa Gerry wrote, “I think that this is
important because it allows new voices to be heard and challenges the
established media outlets to compete and raise their levels of coverage.” A
blog can be a collaboration of fashion and gossip from two people working on it
and even more.
I cannot
think of another use for a Wiki because it gives us facts. I think Wiki and Blogs are both good and each one has a different use in the internet.