The Wiki has many authors, characters, and a big knowledge base which comes from a big community of people. The best example of it by information week is Wikipedia, which is written and supported by anybody in the wide world who wishes to contribute. Although it sounds very big and chaotic, it creates the perfect database because people are correcting each other’s feeds and edit the Wiki to the most exact manner. For example, if a person makes incorrect updates to an entry, others can change the page back to the way it was before, and further edit it.
Given that so many people police the site in their area of expertise, the value of the content remains high. As a result, the Wiki grows very rapidly and is updated all the time.
A blog on the other side is more of a personal or corporate website in the form of an online diary, with new entries appearing in the order that they are written. Per How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere? Blogs have proved to have power and big influence over events in our life and act as a real time review or opinion sharing for different types of events. In a blog you will usually read posts from one author, with a certain line of opinions while the knowledge base is limited to this one person. As a result, the blog grows very slowly. The only way for collaboration in a blog, is through comments on the blogger’s post.
It may be a good idea to set up a Wiki for social events for communities, where the people determine what will the event consist of and will spread the tasks among the contributors.
Work cited:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/167600331
http://wiki.org/
http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/www2004_blogosphere_gill.pdf
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