Blogs vs. Wikis

As we live in a highly evolving information technology society as a whole, if we do not use blog or wiki at the age of twenty. It seems very outdated. Blog is an abbreviated (or shortened) version of Weblog, which is a term used to describe Web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently (or regularly) updated, personal Web site featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. A wiki is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page contents in a collaborative manner. We see some differences on two types of websites, I think today’s social network services have already converged by using advantages of both. While blog is more focused on ‘opinion’ like a personal journal by posing a single writing on their own blog, wiki allows multiple authors to post many posting at one place to discuss easily about a certain topic or the others. Like “twitter” or “Facebook” we can easily make our own personal page and make any postings which can show to other people within a connection. I think this concept mostly converged out two major topics: Wiki and blog. As a blog which contains a personal journal or opinion can be shared with others, this function satisfies what Wiki is about as collaboration. The users can post anything from any sources. But we should think of safe and helpful sources as information. By Kathy E. Gill, the assigned reading from blog, “Research questions include: Which link is the more representative of influence, blogroll or individual post?” It is time for us to choose which information is reliable and people need to learn how to distinguish which useful information helps us or not. As Wiki reading has given me an insight of Wiki, by Margaret Locher, “Almost half of those who use wikis said they employ them primarily as a collaboration tool, with employee communication cited as the second most common reason for supporting wiki software.” Wiki is more about collection of professional information or “collective knowledge” for all users who need a help to find an answer. As a blog and wiki have become together, blog’s personal opinion and Wiki’s information just crossed their border lines. People can usually get confused with two mixed line. Now users are dominated by a lot of information with personal opinion. For example, if we search an article or Web news, after reading the news, we would see and check the comments of the accidents. I believe we need use both blogs and wiki very wisely not like we are used by the webpages. Information and opinion can be the same but what I understand is the two concepts should not be considered the same at all. I suggest for my new Wiki use is to add a Colored fancy percentage bar which tells you how many percents are reliable or informative on each information or new postings so that people may distinguish whether the posted information is reliable or not.

Hi, this is Dongchan(Peter) Lee,

I just made my own blog for Accounting professional and Information System people.

Please welcome, and enjoy my blogs.

Research Topic

"Devastating Social Media Addiction"

Social media has a major impact on today's society and people, specially young students who have a less self-control. Many researches based on news paper, average people spend their time on "Social Network Service (SNS)" more than 2 hours a day. The younger are they, the more and higher they spend their time on it. It has a lot of advantages of using SNS for today's lives but I would say disadvantage of using SNS keeps people down on much worse of their lives. A research found that many students who receive lower grade one a school mostly get easily addicted to SNS for them to avoid a real life or burdens of study. Spending more time on SNS such as Facebook, YouTube has made young generations worse that people on nowadays have never expected before. I would like to elaborate how it has happened, and how we can solve the problem in general by using examples.

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