Wiki and blogs are similar in that they are both ways of communicating to other people. Blogs are more opinionated than wikis. Wikis are the way to share the information with other people, while blogs are more of another way of to express your own opinion on topics that they want to talk about.
In an article “How can we measure the
influence of the blogosphere?” by Kathy E. Gill, she says the Web promised
active communities and social networks in early 1900, sharing ideas and shaping
new realities. Everyone who wished to be would be a publisher; democratization
of information (and, consequently, power) would follow. Indeed, the growth of
the Web was nothing short of phenomenal. Blogs have played a role in raising
those expectations; thus, blogs have demonstrated influence: the power to
affect events. Blogging as Journalism. blogging software opened this form of
journalism to nontechnical writers, blogs have exploded on the Web’s landscape.
In the process, bloggers are influencing the world outside of the blogosphere,
as measured by audience reach, media adoption and political necessity.
on the other hand, an article “How to Build Your Own Wikipedia” by Margaret
Locher, she dedicate schoosing a wiki—a
software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on
online documents—so that each team member could contribute and access
up-to-date information on the project. There are more positives than negatives
to using wikis. They don't require a lot of personnel to support them and many
of the tools are free. At some companies, end users run their own wikis,
without help from IT (and sometimes without IT's knowledge—more on that
shortly). Wikis work best when they're
focused narrowly on a specific project or collection of information, as well as
on a specific group of users. The software used by Wikipedia is the open-source
Media Wiki. Wikis are great tools for helping people to come to consensus
quickly, whether about what to put on a meeting agenda or how best to meet
customers’ needs.
