Blog v Wiki

With the internet being used dominantly in society, people rely on websites such as blogs or wikis as a source of information. The difference between blogs from wiki is that blogs are written in a journal format and others are able to comment on it but only the user can edit it. Whereas wikis are just information posted by a user and set to public where anyone is allowed to edit the post. Blogs usually consists mostly of personal opinions rather than facts or information. Blogs and wikis are similar in which both are places where people can publicly provide information to others. But sometimes wikis can't be trusted since there are anonymous users who can just publish whatever they want without having a credible source. Nonetheless, blogs and wikis are both websites where people are able to express their thoughts and share their knowledge with others.

Convergence definitely impacted our world today. With so many people sharing their stories on social media, it's what helps bring opposite ends together and form commonality among groups. On the other hand, collaboration refers to the cooperation with another person in order to produce something. As people share stories with others, it unintentionally helped with crime fighting. There's an example given by New York Times publisher Michael Wilson in "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drugs Raid," about how blogging helped police officers solve drug raid cases. Bloggers described their neighborhood surroundings about suspicious drug related activities which cops read about and investigated. Later on it lead to the arrest of several drug dealers. Due to bloggers blogging about reoccurring suspicious drug-related events in their neighborhood, police officials were able to make several arrests and solve the case.

With wikis being so widely used, it's not surprising that wikis might one day evolve into bettering companies. According to "How to Use Wiki for Business" by Ezra Goodnoe, "Wikis can centralize all types of corporate data, such as spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, PDFs — anything that can be displayed in a browser." With wiki being able to operate with these types of files, all companies will one day use wiki for collaborate with other businesses and manage or share their business files online. A new way people can use Wiki for is to work on company projects with their co-workers. Since wiki is able to support various file types, the co-workers can all share a file on wiki and edit it together. Wiki's useful functions might one day just impact our world in social networking.

Works Cited
"Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." New York Times., 26 June. 2008. Web. 29 Sept. 2014 "How To Use Wikis For Business." InformationWeek. N.p., 8 Aug. 2005. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.