Blogs v Wikis

Blogs vs Wikis 

Blogs and Wikis are both part of the New Media era of information management and distribution. Both can be equally useful in the collaboration of ideas and sharing of information. The main difference between these two types of new media platforms is that Wiki posts can be created and edited by all of the users on the platform, whereas a blog post can only be created by one person and the other users can only comment and discuss.  Therefore information is more static in a blog and more dynamic in a Wiki. A post in a blog is usually created and not often edited afterwards but opinions and inputs are added onto the comments, giving a variety of insights. In a Wiki, the main post is usually edited often to provide the most up to date and accurate information making the post a good source of information but there isn't a variety of individual insight rather a collective summary. 

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