Blog
Blog, short for web log, an online, regularly
updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general
public by virtue of being posted on a website. Blogs typically report and comment on topics of interest to the author,
and are usually written and posted using software specifically designed
to facilitate blogging; they include hyperlinks to other website and,
often, photos, video clips, and the like. The most recent entry by the
blogger is posted at the beginning of the blog, with earlier entries
following in reverse chronological order; comments and other responses
to the blog by readers are often posted after each entry.
A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website
or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with
regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such
as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological
order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add
content to a blog. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave
comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this
interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. Many blogs
provide commentary on a particular subject; others 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. The ability of readers to leave
comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most
blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs
(photoblog), videos (video blogging or vlogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting).
Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. As of 16
February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. Wikipedia on Blogs
Wiki
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create
and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports
hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and
cross links between internal pages on the fly.
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any
number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup
language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software
and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include community
websites, corporate intranets, knowledge management systems, and note services.
Wikis serve different purposes. Some permit control over different functions
(levels of access). For example editing rights may permit changing, adding or
removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control.
Other rules can be imposed for organizing content. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb,
originally described it as "the simplest online database that could
possibly work." Wikipedia on Wikis
Blogs and Wikis
After reading this article Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid, we can easily recognize the importance of blogs.
This New York Times article An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified shows how the wikis becoming very useful not only to individuals also Governments. The advantages are obvious, in efficiency and in saving paper, but it has required a leap of faith, too.
Blogs and wikis are very easy and convenient to use that they help us out in so many way. Whether it is for crime stopping, government purposes or just getting to know about a topic or person. It gives us so many advantages.
ReplyDeleteAgree with the idea that wiki is the simplest online database for the collaboration although several types of cloud office tools have been launched which may take wiki's position by offering a little more advanced tools.
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