Blog vs Wiki

A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and published on the World Wide Web. The blog post is appearing in chronological order and typically include such as comments, photos, and links. The topics include social issue, News or personal ongoing diary.  The wiki is a server application which allows users to add, modify or delete content .Wiki and aims to collect, organize, preserve, improve and spread collective knowledge.

                                                                   Blog and Wiki Comparisons table

Blog	Wiki
A web log frequently updated	A server application that users can update
Only one person or group of people can post	Wiki allows unlimited # of approved users
Visitors can only leave comments	All users can be collaborators
One write to many reader	Many writes to many readers
Blogs are better for reading in chronological order	Wiki article in not in chronological order

 Blogging has become an important part of the online and impacting the worlds of politics, business and society with their words. In the article “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” Michael Wilson talks about a group of Brooklyn people who didn’t know each other came to together and traded information through the blog and help police to arrest drug dealer.

Nowadays Wiki is not just only tool for collect, organize or spread collective knowledge, wiki is also use for business. Article “How to Use Wikis for Business” Ezra Goodnoe states many companies are using Wiki to centralize all types of corporate data, such as doc, PDF, PPT that anything can display in a browser. In result wiki helps company save tons of money to purchase expensive information management application.