Blog vs Wiki

Blogs are like articles on a news paper where you can post your opinions of many things. The only difference is that you do not need to be hired by a company and are not paid for it. It is an individual person posting articles of their choice, and any one on the web can find it an read it if they choose to do so. People who would like to comment on someones blog can do so, but they cannot edit the actual blog posting.

Wikis on the other hand are used more to share and gather information by a group of people or companies. In other to edit a wiki page you must be invited into the group. The idea here is to be able to gather the best information possible by allowing multiple people to contribute. Unlike a blog anyone can edit any part of wiki at any given time. Wikis have become popular in companies who are working on group projects and can not be together most of the time.

Blogs and Wikis are similar in the sense that they can be found on the internet and are not created not edited by professionals. They are owned by regular people who want to share or gather information on a specific topic. Both of these tools can create a sense of community among people who share common interest. My only concern with both of these tools is the lack of censorship that they may contain since they are only controlled by the people who create them.

Term paper description

 For my final term paper I have decided to write about social networking and the various effects it has on society. Socially, economically and politically; social networking is changing the way people communicate with each other. Not only personally, but through professional interactions and different advertising strategies, social networking has evolved from a way to communicate with friends, to a way for businesses to attract more consumers and for politicians to push their own agenda. As more people continue to log on to the internet and the bridge of the digital divide is lessened social network will continue to grow and evolve.