BLOG: Blog v Wiki

          There’s a difference between blogs and wiki’s one being that one can be edited by outside people and the other cannot. Blogs are posted by people who want to voice their opinion and who wont be silenced since the post cannot be edited by an outside source. A Wiki is “ The simplest online database that could possibly work” as stated in the article InformationWeek- How to Use Wikis For Business. In other words it is a database that can be edited by any person or anyone with permission so there is a possibility of false information as well as accurate information. I believe that convergence in today’s networked world is very important because it makes us more interconnected with one another. With convergence information is brought about through different forms of technology like writers or advertisers produce things that would interest us like works of literature videos for advertising and so forth. Also there is a way to communicate with the writers with online blogs that they might have or live videos where you can chat with them and they respond and so forth. I would say a way that blogs can be used for collaboration would be like as explained in the article in The New York Times titled Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid here “Subjects over the last year or two veered away from apartment sales … and sounded more like rat-a-tat police reports.” As we see here it is explaining how ordinary worked together to be a source to help the police make a drug raid. That is a way blogs can be used for collaborative purposes. I think a new way of using wiki would be to do peer review of essays and certain students would receive permission to review the essay as a group.

InformationWeek- How to Use Wikis For Business- https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDoxZGQ4MDY2YmJiMmY1ZDY4

Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html