Blog vs Wiki

Convergence in today’s network is important because it allows people to share their thoughts, opinions and ideas.  It permits every person to have a voice or say in a topic.    Convergence in today’s network also provides learning from each other without having to research for information through several texts.  Examples of people sharing their voice are with the use of blogs and wikis.

A blog is created by one person and can only be written and edited by that person, while wikis can be written and edited by any person, as stated in “How to Use Wikis for Business.”   In wikis if a mistake or inaccurate information is written, the error can be corrected by anyone.  In “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid,” collaboration transpires between bloggers while they are discussing a particular house in the neighborhood and its suspicious activity.  In this incidence bloggers collaborated and formed a conclusion about multiple incidences that arose at the house in turn leading to the arrests of several people in the home.  Their collaboration brought attention to an area otherwise overlooked and helped correct an issue that was transpiring. 

A new use for wiki might be using wiki for on sight or hands on research project where each individual records their findings to the same wiki page leading to factual findings available for the public to read.  This would provide the public with information based on an actual study.