Blogs and Wikis can both give extremely vital information on a subject that you are looking up. Both blogs and wikis have content that is user generated which can provide an extreme amount of information. There is a key difference between blogs and wikis though. The main difference is that blogs can provide opinionated biased posts where as on wikis, you would not want that. Wikis are known as a go to place for facts and not what peoples are. As stated in the article "Wikipedia: No Longer The Wild West", Caterina Fake purposed if there were no guidelines and no content management, wikis would devolve into chaos. I see wikis more as an online encyclopedia and blogs more as journal entries. These journal entries express ones feelings and usually come with a comment section where other users can express how they feel about the topic posted. Unorganized opinions on wikis would not be allowed. This is seen in the article "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog." The blog the troops kept expressed their feelings and thoughts about war. These posts would not be allowed on a Wiki due to the fact that a post may sway the public into a biased opinion. Wikis are not suppose to evoke but instead provide information. They are both extremely important this day and age because it allow us to gather information easily and effectively. Whether we want an extensive knowledge base or different views on a product or subject, we can easily get this information on a variety of blogs or wikis.
Articles Cited
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/26/wikipedia.editors/index.html?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/us/09milblogs.html?ref=politics
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