Blog v Wiki

Blogs and wikis may seem similar but they are likely to serve different purposes. For bloggers, it is like a diary format where there is one author that writes a blog and other people will contribute in the comment section. On the other hand, wiki users are used for group communications and posts are flexible to changes. Aside from their slight differences, blogs and wikis are very useful. In the article “Brooklyn blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” by Michael Wilson, Katherine Khatari claims that “People don’t like to fight alone. There’s strength in numbers, you know? There’s more of us than them.” This article was about drug business that was happening near Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Many people were afraid to say anything at first because you don’t know what would happen to you, but through blogging, people slowly started to voice their opinions. Because of blogging, the community was brought together. As mentioned earlier, wiki users have many authors. In another article “An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified” by Noam Cohen, she says, “The advantages are obvious, in efficiency and in saving paper, but it has required a leap of faith, too. For, theoretically at least, anyone at the State Department could have edited the biographies Mr.Spogli was reading-unlike traditional resources.” There are pros and cons to wiki users. It is a good sense of group communication, but because anyone can assess the same page you can, some works can be alternated. Aside from using wiki from school and work, we can create a personal wiki page for our personal use with our goals and motives that we would like to accomplish in life.

 

Project Proposal

My topic is about whether Ebay is like a community or bazaar. Community is often seen as having the same interest and similarity or common ownership and participation. Bazaar is like a market place where many kinds of goods are being sold. I would like to go more in-depth in my research paper as to why Ebay is more like a bazaar. Like a bazaar, Ebay sells almost anything you need, from textbooks to eyelashes.