Blog V.S. Wiki

As two main emerging Internet personal knowledge management workplaces and communities, each of them facilitate the dissemination of knowledge, opinions, and topics. They have similarities in terms of their functions of presenting freedom, equality, and sharing of information. However, Blog and Wiki have its specialties to distinguish itself from another. For Blogs, it embodies personalities and personal knowledge, and it's sharing of personal opinions on a specific topic. The audiences of a Blog can leave comments to participate in it or criticize with their own ideas.  Godwin- Jones clarifies in "Blogs and Wikis" that Blogs are easy to be linked or cross-linked in order to create an expansive online opinion community. Jones also claims that there is no need for Wen authoring on Blogs, and students can easily navigate on it. Thus, "[Blogs] offer a great deal of flexibility and the potential for creativity in the construction of the site..." (Jones 13). For Wikis, it usually has a strict common topic, and all the participants or contributors need to integrate and collaborate with each other. Information provided on Wiki attributes to the group's works because as long as you want to participate in building a Wiki website, you can contribute your part of it.

How can Blogs be used for Collaboration? Here is an example. "Blogs can provide great inspiration and resources for students' writing" (Johnson 176). In Johnson's article "Teaching with authors' blogs", he alleges that during the writing process, authors' ideas and their readers' opinions can interact and against each other to create a collaborative environment for revisions. Thus, blogs offer a double- direction interactive channel. One more Blogs' collaboration is that even though the readers and the author are far from each other, both parties can communicate via blogging in real-time (Johnson 177).

Is there a new use for a Wiki that has not been done? The answer is Yes of course. What I think about the new use for Wiki is its private information storage. No one else knows us better than we do. It can be used for our own growth journal since we touched online Technology in our childhood, and it should contain an option whether we are willing to make it public or not.
(Since Wiki requires the coding knowledge and ability, it's cool for people to learn it.)

References:
Godwin-Jones, Robert. "Blogs and wikis: Environments for online collaboration." Language learning & technology 7.2 (2003): 12-16.

Johnson, Denise. "Teaching with authors' blogs: Connections, collaboration, creativity." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 54.3 (2010): 172-180.