Blogs vs. Wikis

Blog, also known as weblog is a personal site where individual can post journal entries, headlines or short stories. Blogs also allow visitors to comment on the content. Some technology sites says that there were about 112,000,000 blogs as of December 2007. Since then the number of blogs in the Blogosphere has dramatically increased. But the truth is that nobody can really count those.

Blogs are the simplest way for an individual to express themselves. You don't need any web development or design skills to be able to blog.


According to Margaret Locher from April 17, 2008 posted on www.cio.com (click here to access the article) Wiki "allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online documents—so that each team member could contribute and access up-to-date information on the project." Therefore, Wikis are the entries created by different users in different times on one particular subject on one platform. In contrast to blogs, wikis are the work of team, therefore the wiki platform allows different users to write and read. However, to be able to create wikis, users need some basic html or css knowledge. Also, the platform limits some of the features to be able to keep the platform neat.

In today's networked World, wikis and the blogs attribute each other. Linking to a wiki from a blog or linking another blog on a blog can be given as example.