Blogs and wikis are both webpages that allow for immediate publishing of content. A wiki is usually a content that can be edited by a group of people who are all contributing to the wiki. Wikis are commonly used to express group thoughts where the information is constantly updated. A blog on the other hand is a webpage typically ran by one individual with comments left by people who have read in it conversation style. People can comment on it but cannot edit the authors original work.
In the reading "Wikipedia, No Longer The Wild West", an article by CNN, they discuss how wikipedia is trying to take some control over what is being posted. Up until now people can post whatever they feel at the moment on the wiki. However a spokesperson for wikipedia said they will try to limit this so only beneficial and accurate information can be posted. I feel that this is a smart idea because it is not changing the idea of the wikipedia it would just be there to rule out false information.
According to Forbes, a blog site such as Tumblr, has not been growing as much as Yahoo expected it to. In the article they discuss how one of the problems may be that Tumblr users may be consuming comment but not producing their own. I feel that if users were able to edit like they could on a wiki they would use it much more. The problem with this is that many bloggers do not want their information to be edited only commented on, which is why they use blogs and not wikis.
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