Blogs vs. Wikis

One of the most used and common websites are blogs. People use blogs to connect with the people that read each others blogs. Blogs are used to many things such as communicating with others, expressing your feeling, to write whats on your mind so other people can understand you as well, and for many other reasons. Blogs that you posted and created is something that is yours. It does not belong to anyone else. You can post ANYTHING you want on your blog, whether its a picture or a quote or whatever you want. It's a place where you can speak your mind and say whatever you want to say. Blogs can do a lot things for people and in this case it helped leading to a drug raid. “Fighting and drug deals going down in the driveway of this house” a blogger stated and another person replied: “I’ve heard loud fighting for almost a year now but did not realize until recently that it’s a crack house.” Then months later cops raided the place.

Wikis are basically websites and databases that everyone can use. Some people go on Wikipedia to seek knowledge to know more things about what they are searching about. Some people even use Wikipedia to do there homework when it comes to a research paper or something. Wikis can be manage by more than one person and anyone can edit and change it, a it says on "Wikipedia on Wikis". Its a place where people share their knowledge and people can learn from one another. But not everything that they put up on wikis are real because people can put false information or edit and change things on there. In some cases it can benefit people. For example in the article "How To Use Wikis For Business" by Ezra Goodnoe, for people that work on projects together in companies and instead of everyone emailing each other one by one, everyone can post their knowledge and everything up on a wiki. So they can all see it and apply more information and changes if its needed. This way everyone's lives would be easier.

1. Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid By MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times June 26, 2008 available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html

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

3. "How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005, http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331