BLOG: Blog v Wiki
A wiki is a website on which multiple users/authors create and edit content collaboratively. There are thousands of wikis used for knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites, and intranets. In a blog, there is only one defined user/author who creates and edits the content.
Convergence in today's networked world is significant because it can be beneficial to the community. For example, a neighborhood in Brooklyn wrote stories of drug addicts in the neighborhood on one specific blog that helped the police through a drug raid. A core group of seven people met through the blog and brought the case to the attention of the community and authorities. Through collaboration, this blog prompted the beginning of a narcotics investigation and multiple arrests.
A new use for a wiki could be a collaboration among users for ongoing events. People will be able to talk to each other in real time and describe what is going on in the events.
Sources:
Wilson, Michael. "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 June 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html
"Wiki." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Sept. 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Convergence in today's networked world is significant because it can be beneficial to the community. For example, a neighborhood in Brooklyn wrote stories of drug addicts in the neighborhood on one specific blog that helped the police through a drug raid. A core group of seven people met through the blog and brought the case to the attention of the community and authorities. Through collaboration, this blog prompted the beginning of a narcotics investigation and multiple arrests.
A new use for a wiki could be a collaboration among users for ongoing events. People will be able to talk to each other in real time and describe what is going on in the events.
Sources:
Wilson, Michael. "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 June 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html
"Wiki." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Sept. 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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