Blog vs Wiki

Blogs and Wikis are part of a new wave of new media. They are just another way for people to communicate with each other on the internet. They are also another way for people to write things on the internet for everybody to see. Blogs and wikis are similar in the sense that they are applications where people can collaborate and put information/opinions on the internet. They are different in the way it is used. Blogs are run by at most a few people per blog. The only people that write the blogs is the people who created it. The issue with this is they control what is written and sometimes it is not good things. An example of this is from the New York Times paper called "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd. The article brings up model Liskula Cohen who was cyber-bullied through an unknown blog. This blog called her names that were insensitive. The problem with blogs is that people can hide behind them while making fun of people. Wikis on the other hand, anybody can edit the info. Blogs=opinions and Wikis=Information. In the article "Wikipedia Will Limit Changes to Articles on People" by Noam Cohen it talks about limiting change on articles. Wikipedia has had history of having somewhat faulty info due to that anybody can edit the articles. Part of it is so people are protected from having the wrong this said about them. Blogs can be used for any collaboration, but there need to be limits on what is said. Any blog website should process the blog before being published to see if it is acceptable. One thing wikis can do is maybe team up with the people wikis are about to get the right information.