Blog vs Wiki

What is blog? 

Blog is a web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual or small group which is usually written in informal or conversational style. A blog is a frequently updated, can link to other articles and other web sites. 

According to Kathy E. Gill in "How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere?" , Primary characteristics of a blog include: 

"• Reverse chronological journaling (format) 

 • Regular, date-stamped entries (timeliness) 

 • Links to related news articles, documents, blog entries within each entry (attribution) 

 • Archived entries (old content remains accessible) 

 • Links to related blogs (blogrolling) 

 • RSS or XML feed (ease of syndication) 

 • Passion (voice)" 

What is Wiki? 

Wiki is the web page that allows multiple users to create, edit, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner.

Wikipedia defines Wiki as "A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ wik-ee) is a website which allows collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.^[1] " 

Blog vs Wiki:

Here is the brief compare between Blogs and Wiki

Blog	Wiki
Usually managed by a single author.	Multiple authors (Users)
Entries posted is edited by author	Pages can be edited by a group or team
Chronological Content:            Comment on Posts            Responses to comments            Posts/ Entries	Pages:            Edited            Changed            Added
More about opinion sharing and posts become stale over the time	Knowledge sharing and constantly updated
Links to other blogs and outside	Link to other wiki pages
One to many communication	Many to many communication
Discussions takes places in type of comment and responses	Discussions can take place on pages or directly through editing

Convergence in today's networked world:

In today's networked world, convergence plays a very important role - Its where everything collides. The convergence of Media is a typical example. For long history, there are many old types of media from such as books, newspaper, journals, radios, televisions which are distinct technologies belonging to separate industries. .... nowadays, that such forms collides on internet. The combination of digitization and computer networking has resulted in the breaking down of these tradition media forms. The integration of all media, enabling the immediate and global exchange of every kind of content   

Blogs, used as a collaboration: 

We all know that the typical characteristic of wiki is collaborative manner by users; in contract, to blog, this characteristic is limited. However, blog can be used for collaboration like wiki but in the different ways. Comments section under the post can allowed other users to give their opinions or suggestions to the blog's author. It's not the directly way to count as collaboration but this way has collaborative characteristic as other users can distribute the knowledge to author - they do work together to improve the topic.. Another way is to give the authorizes many people so that they can access to the blog and modify the entries. 

Wiki and new uses

We can use wiki for online business forum where users are allowed to post there businesses (house rental, services, jobs, job seeking, ..). We can also use wiki to do survey or feedback/ getting information, -  where you can give a topic, ask a question and allows other people to distribute their answer as opinions. For example, if you wanna open and new business and you want to know the location most of the customer expect your business to be at, we can use wiki to do survey by asking question: "Where do you want our new store [your business] to be at ?" or you can organize a game by asking customer to guess the new location that your business will be at - By asking this question, customer will likely tell you their expected location, other customer can vote too. 

References:

1. Wiki. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
2. How Can We Measure the Influence of the Blogosphere? by Kathy E. Gill. Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, May 2004. available from:http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/www2004_blogosphere_gill.pdf