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Blogging is a personal, light-weight, web publishing tool, allowing web content management with minimal technical knowledge and fuss, empowerment to personal publishers. Blogging is about time-ordered commentary, frequency, brevity, & personality. The significance is around the format - content chunks arranged chronologically and not the content. The defining characteristics are commentary and a sequential chronology. In an open space, blogs offer control and a shield against spamming that mar contributions to usenet and slashdot (Denham).

Wiki is more than just social writing, easy and intuitive web publishing and the ability to do hypertext. There is the potential to anneal joint meaning, synthesize something greater than the direct combination of individual parts, there is the potential for building a community ethos around direct collaboration at the (text) or artifact level. Michael Schrage says The best shared spaces are an invitation to innovation..the prototype or models are driving our processes and learning.. if you do not have a shared space you are not collaborating, ...it's creating opportunity for others to add value (Denham)!

History

Interestingly, since both types of website have been in existence approximately the same length of time, the term "blog" is in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary; whereas "wiki" is not.

Blog

Some of the earliest bloggers were Justin Hall and Brad Fitzpatrick who began posting in online journals in 1994. In 1997, Jorn Barger came up with the term "weblog", which was shortened to blog in 1999 by Peter Merhoz. Also, in 1997, there were only around one hundred blogs; by 2005, there were over fifty million. The blog of today grew from the online diary where people kept an play-by-play account of their lives.

Wiki

Wiki came about when Ward Cunningham was trying to come up with a way to have public-knowledge bases readily available. WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, is named after the Chance RT-52 line of shuttle buses called Wiki Wiki in Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. The first major technology site was Wikipedia which began in January of 2001. Wiki and Kwiki, a couple of open source wikis, had over a million downloads by 2004.

Similarities

Both blogs and wikis:

Can be trace back to 1994.
Are types of content authoring, knowledge sharing, and media-publishing websites.
Have many tools to enable blogging and the development of wiki.
Have had separate languages spring up around their uses.

Differences

Blogs and wikis, because they are different spaces, manifest/take advantage of/engage different epistemic and rhetorical possibilities and serve different rhetorical and epistemic ends. They engage different rhetorics: one topical, carved from the inside out; the other chronological, staying on top of things (Morgan).

Simply put, blogs are about writing for a community and wiki is about writing within or in a community.

The main differences are as follows:

Use of time vs. topic-linking to organize the material
Ability to directly edit content else created - collaborative vs. individual
Use of linking to organize within the context of an ongoing discussion
Nature of content publishing (public or private)

Blog

A blog is a publicly posted diary or journal that reflects the personality and point of view of the author. In general, blogs are frequently updated, usually have a way of making comments, and are often hyperlinked. Blogs are structured in reverse chronological order and are a commentary about any and all topics by an individual. Blogs sometimes allow commentary, but not revision. Blogs present a uniform point of view and remain in control of the author.

A blog entry normally has the following:

Title of the post
Body
Permalink - the URL of the full, specific entry.
Post Date

A blog entry sometimes has the following:

Comments
Categories/tags - topics the entry covers
Pingback and/or trackback - links to alternative sites that mention the entry

Wiki

A wiki enables documents to be written collectively in an extremely simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching for or even creating information. Title, full-text, and recent changes searches are generally provided.

A wiki consists of an original article written by one person, then other people make edits or contribute new content to the flow of information. A defining aspect of wiki technology is how easy it is for pages to be constructed and revised. Another wiki characteristic is hyperlinks, which are references in hypertext documents to other documents or resources. Anyone within the community may revise already-existing content and most edits can be made in real-time and show up almost immediately online.

Wikis present multiple points of view and can sometimes suffer from vandalism or damage to the site; the wiki philosophy is to undo damage versus the rigor of preventing damage and is called "soft security".

Over time, the differences between blogs and wikis seem to be lessening as more and more bloggers invite input into their blogs and add hyperlinks. Recently a combination of blog and wiki has resulted in a new communication form entitled bliki.

Links

Works Cited

Denham, Grey. "Blogs or Wiki." Knowledge-at-work. 3 March 2003. <http://www.webassistant.com/site/Denham/blog_15.html>
Morgan, M.C. "WikiAndBlog." Blogs And Wiki. 13 July 2006. Bemidji State University. <http://199.17.178.148/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WikiAndBlog>

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-The difference between weblogs and wikis is rather simple.  A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most available content, sometimes without the need for registration. (Wikipedia)  Weblogs, also known as [[What is a blog?|blogs]], are frequently updated websites consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first.  (Walker)
+Blogging is a personal, light-weight, web publishing tool, allowing web content management with minimal technical knowledge and fuss, empowerment to personal publishers. Blogging is about time-ordered commentary, frequency, brevity, & personality. The significance is around the format - content chunks arranged chronologically and not the content. The defining characteristics are commentary and a sequential chronology. In an open space, blogs offer control and a shield against spamming that mar contributions to usenet and slashdot (Denham).
-== Purpose of a Blog ==
+Wiki is more than just social writing, easy and intuitive web publishing and the ability to do hypertext. There is the potential to anneal joint meaning, synthesize something greater than the direct combination of individual parts, there is the potential for building a community ethos around direct collaboration at the (text) or artifact level. Michael Schrage says The best shared spaces are an invitation to innovation..the prototype or models are driving our processes and learning.. if you do not have a shared space you are not collaborating, ...it's creating opportunity for others to add value (Denham)!
-Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although many focus on photographs, videos or audio. The word blog can also be used as a verb, meaning adding an entry to a blog.
-(Wikipedia)
-== Purpose of a Wiki ==
+=History=
-This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website (see wiki software), or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (and original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and the online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. (Wikipedia)
-== Key Characteristics of Wikis ==
+Interestingly, since both types of website have been in existence approximately the same length of time, the term "blog" is in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary; whereas "wiki" is not.
-A wiki enables documents to be written collectively in a extremely simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information. (Wikipedia)
-A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Generally, there is no review before modifications are accepted. Most wikis are open to the general public without the need to register any user account. Sometimes session log-in is requested to acquire a "wiki-signature" cookie for autosigning edits. More private wiki servers require user authentication. Many edits, however, can be made in real-time, and appear almost instantaneously online. This can often lead to abuse of the system. (Wikipedia)
+===Blog===
+Some of the earliest bloggers were Justin Hall and Brad Fitzpatrick who began posting in online journals in 1994. In 1997, Jorn Barger came up with the term "weblog", which was shortened to blog in 1999 by Peter Merhoz. Also, in 1997, there were only around one hundred blogs; by 2005, there were over fifty million. The blog of today grew from the online diary where people kept an play-by-play account of their lives.
-== Recipe of a blog entry ==
+===Wiki===
-A blog entry typically consists of the following:
+Wiki came about when Ward Cunningham was trying to come up with a way to have public-knowledge bases readily available. WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, is named after the Chance RT-52 line of shuttle buses called Wiki Wiki in Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. The first major technology site was <i>Wikipedia</i> which began in January of 2001. <i>Wiki</i> and <i>Kwiki</i>, a couple of open source wikis, had over a million downloads by 2004.
+=Similarities=
+Both blogs and wikis:
+*Can be trace back to 1994.
+*Are types of content authoring, knowledge sharing, and media-publishing websites.
+*Have many tools to enable blogging and the development of wiki.
+*Have had separate languages spring up around their uses.
-* Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
+=Differences=
-* Body, main content of the post.
+Blogs and wikis, because they are different spaces, manifest/take advantage of/engage different epistemic and rhetorical possibilities and serve different rhetorical and epistemic ends. They engage different rhetorics: one topical, carved from the inside out; the other chronological, staying on top of things (Morgan).
-* Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
-* Post Date, date and time the post was published.
-A blog entry optionally includes the following:
-* Comments
+Simply put, blogs are about writing for a community and wiki is about writing within or in a community.
-* Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
-* Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry
-(Wikipedia)
-== Links ==
+The main differences are as follows:
+*Use of time vs. topic-linking to organize the material
+*Ability to directly edit content else created - collaborative vs. individual
+*Use of linking to organize within the context of an ongoing discussion
+*Nature of content publishing (public or private)
+===Blog===
+A [[What is a blog?|blog]] is a publicly posted diary or journal that reflects the personality and point of view of the author. In general, blogs are frequently updated, usually have a way of making comments, and are often hyperlinked. Blogs are structured in reverse chronological order and are a commentary about any and all topics by an individual. Blogs sometimes allow commentary, but not revision. Blogs present a uniform point of view and remain in control of the author.
+A blog entry normally has the following:
+* Title of the post
+* Body
+* Permalink - the URL of the full, specific entry.
+* Post Date
+A blog entry sometimes has the following:
+* Comments
+* Categories/tags - topics the entry covers
+* Pingback and/or trackback - links to alternative sites that mention the entry
+===Wiki===
+A [[What is a wiki?|wiki]] enables documents to be written collectively in an extremely simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching for or even creating information. Title, full-text, and recent changes searches are generally provided.
+A wiki consists of an original article written by one person, then other people make edits or contribute new content to the flow of information. A defining aspect of wiki technology is how easy it is for pages to be constructed and revised. Another wiki characteristic is hyperlinks, which are references in hypertext documents to other documents or resources. Anyone within the community may revise already-existing content and most edits can be made in real-time and show up almost immediately online.
+Wikis present multiple points of view and can sometimes suffer from vandalism or damage to the site; the wiki philosophy is to undo damage versus the rigor of preventing damage and is called "soft security".
-== Works Cited ==
-"Blog." ''Wikipedia''. 2006. Wikipedia. 20 Jul 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>.
-"Types of Blogs." ''Wikipedia''. 2006. Wikipedia.com. 23 Jul 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_blogs
+Over time, the differences between blogs and wikis seem to be lessening as more and more bloggers invite input into their blogs and add hyperlinks. Recently a combination of blog and wiki has resulted in a new communication form entitled bliki.
-"Wiki" ''Wikipedia''. 2006. Wikipedia.com 23 Jul 2006
+== Links ==
-<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikipedia Wiki Entry]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Blog Entry]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliki Wikipedia Bliki Entry]
+* [http://www.cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/08/21/time.php A Time to Blog, A Time to Wiki, A Time to ...]
+* [http://199.17.178.148/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WhenBlogMeetsWiki WhenBlogMeetsWiki]
+* [http://frassle.net/blogsVsWikis frassle: Blogs vs. Wikis]
+* [http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/2004/11/07/blogs-and-wikis-and-content-publishing Blogs and Wikis and Content Publishing]
+* [http://www.iawiki.net/IAwikiBlog/Discussion IAwikiBlog]
+* [http://www.ottergroup.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/23/968266.html The Otter Group: Blogs vs. Wikis]
+== Works Cited ==
+* Denham, Grey. "Blogs or Wiki." <u>Knowledge-at-work</u>. 3 March 2003. <http://www.webassistant.com/site/Denham/blog_15.html>
+* Morgan, M.C. "WikiAndBlog." <u>Blogs And Wiki</u>. 13 July 2006. Bemidji State University. <http://199.17.178.148/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WikiAndBlog>