The world is greatly changed through the internet world. The
networking-based system provides you lots of information through databases such
as Wikis and Blogs. There are major
differences between Wikis and blogs.
First, Wikis are edited by multiple anonymous users, yet the
blogs are usually edited by single users. In addition, Wikis are based on many
writers and readers, but the blogs are one writer but many readers. For
example, accordance with the article, “Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog”,
the blogs are most likely being watched by many people for any purposes.
Secondly, the articles on Wikis are consistently changed and
continuously updated. On the other hand, the blogs are chronologically recorded
by a single user. According to the New York Times article “Wikipedia to Limit
Changes to Articles on People”, because of those characteristics of Wikis,
Wikipedia’s freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed. It makes sense that Wikis
try to limit the access for editing, adding, and changing to keep information
on Wikipedia’s accurate database. This curbing system could be one of the new
things that Wikis has not been done yet. It could lead Wikis to become more
like the blogs with the limited access.
Although both Wikis and the blogs have the differences,
there also exist similarities. Both web pages are bases on knowledge sharing from
time to time. Likewise, Wikis and the blogs are similar but different at the
same time.
Works Cited
COHEN, NOAM. Wikipedia to Limit Changes to
Articles on People. 24 August 2009.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?_r=2&>.
DAO, JAMES. Pentagon
Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog. 8 September 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/us/09milblogs.html?ref=politics>.
