Blog v Wiki

Wiki and Blog are all products that produced and extended by rise of internet. Wiki and Blog are all rely on the internet services, because of the internet we can reach each other through different platforms, such as Wiki and Blog. People even do editing and writing blog for livings. They significantly impact our lives. Both of them distribute massive of information that we need for daily lives, sometimes they share information faster than the News.

Wiki is a tool that each of us around the world can contribute and access contents up on the so in a way we create the most compete and large database. We can consider it as a collaborative tool to connect each of us around the world. We are holding the responsibilities to correct and polish the information up, and to do our best to make sure the content up there are true and not malicious attacking someone or some groups. It is like the community that we built and we have to protect it.
According to Wikipedia, "the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is by far the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites of any kind in the world...Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, one for each language. There are tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, note taking tools, community websites and intranets." It is so useful in our lives. That we can access different information through many different languages. What a great idea is that? It is great to create this environment for us to archive what is disappearing around us.

On the other hand, Blog is consider as personal wiki, that for personal use to share information around the world to see it. We use it to discuss what social trend, all kinds of issue. It is similar to a forum. We can comment on it and we can both share information up there, but there right to delete and approve are on the blogger's hand. Blog can significantly affect a business, according to the article Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog by MICHAEL BARBARO, "Wal-Mart says the Web site helps buyers solicit quick feedback from consumers on the merchandise — and shows a softer side of the giant company, which has 5,000 stores, 1.2 million workers and annual sales of nearly $400 billion." It is clear that it is a new way of advertising the product online by using blogger to blow up the effectiveness and worthiness of a product.

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Wikipedia on Wikis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki


Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write a Blunt and Unfiltered Blog, NY Times, march 3, 2008, p. C1, at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03walmart.html