A blog is a diary where people share their ideas and opinions and the material is posted in reverse chronological order. A wiki on the other hand is a collaboration in which people share information on a website. A blog differs from a wiki in many ways such that in a blog, you can see older posts where as comparing to a wiki, all you see is the updated information. A wiki is based on a collaboration of people where as a blog is just solely one person. A blog is also more opinionated than a wiki. A wiki is usually based on facts, the majority of time. In today's networked world, convergence plays a very important part. Having blogs and wikis open many opportunities to many people young and old, rich or poor, any race or ethnicity and helps bring them together so they can work together in unison. A way blogs can be used for collaboration was shown by Wal-Mart in an article entitled "Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog." This article shows how Wal-Mart used blogs in collaboration with employees and customers to get a birds-eye view of products. A new way in which a wiki can be used is with a tourist website. The website can have interesting and amazing attractions of places in New York City. People can then update the site if they would like to add more information about he tourist spots or add new places in New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03walmart.html?_r=1&sq=unbound%20wal-mart%20tastemakers&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331
http://www.cio.com/article/336818/More_on_How_to_Build_Your_Own_Wikipedia
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