Blog vs Wiki

Blogs are more controlled places where individuals are able to post their own work in chronological order and project information to readers. Wikis allow for collaborative efforts by members of an assigned group to continuously update, edit and interact in relative real time. Since Wiki’s allow this real time collaboration, it allows users to share ideas in a timely manner and thus affect the subject without delay. However, as the New York Times article by Noam Cohen, makes clear, this also has the down side of misuse (Cohen 2009). Blogs on the other hand allow people to converge on the author’s post through comments in an almost conversation-like manner. This also has a dangerous side as another New York TImes article by Michael Wilson examines how they can be used by law enforcement to gather information (Wilson 2008).  It would be interesting to see the administrative office’s of Baruch use a Wiki to keep students apprised of relevant information such as tuition due dates.