BLOG: Blog v Wiki

BLOG: Blog v Wiki

Compare and contrast blogs and wikis. Comment on the importance of convergence in today's networked world. How can blogs be used for collaboration? Can you think of a new use for a wiki that has not been done yet?
   
          Blogs and wikis are both vastly similar and different. The importance of convergence is never ending. Today's networked world is filled with interconnectedness through social media that continuously grows.
          Blogs can be used for collaboration in several ways. According to "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog" by James Dao, a specialist in Afghanistan nicknamed Mud Puppy created a blog that documented the life on the war front. The blog called Embrace the Suck (military slang for making the best of a bad situation) was filled with hilarity and satire. He showed "terror of roadside bombs to the tyrannies of master sergeants." In this instance, blogs can be used to document and display lives of others in another part of the world with people who are not going through the same experiences. The ability to show life for others to relate to is extremely powerful and shows how technology continues to advance online and through the use of social media. 
         Wikis are websites used for collaborative modification and efforts of uniting numerous people thought's online. According to Wikipedia, wikis modify "content and structure are directly from the web browser." "In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor."                Wikis and Blogs are very effective in socializing life and ideas of everyday life. I can't think of a new use for a wiki because it has been used in countless ways and continues to evolve.


                                                 Sources I Used

https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/webapps/lobj-wiki-bb_bb60/wiki/BKL01_BUSN._3110_MW2_1169_1/_26180923_1/Home?cmd=GetImage&systemId=Pentagon+Keeps__0.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki  

BLOG: Project Description: Wikipedia: A business model that should have flopped

Kayla Nathaniel

Final Project Proposal

   My topic for my term paper may possibly change, but at the moment I would like to focus on the choice that involves the use of Wikipedia. I heavily use Wikipedia and would like to explore in-depth the negative and positive impacts of Wikipedia on today's society.

  I want to explore Wikipedia as a business model also. I am in the early process of making the points of what I would like to discuss.