Blog V Wiki

    People use blogs to communicate. Posting a blog is like publishing news in person. Different people can blog about different things. For example, a businessman can post a blog about work. Athletes post blogs about their daily life that show to their fans. Different kinds of blogs also attract different groups of people. People with the same interests can make different comments on the same blog. This is the communication between them, they read each other's blogs to learn more news. According to the article “Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog”, Walmart's blog site changed the traditional model. It was written by little-known buyers, not by senior executives, and was largely unedited. Walmart's website helps buyers get quick feedback from consumers about their products, so when Walmart uses blogs, they can help them learn more about their products. Blogs can also help sellers better understand what customers are thinking. People use Wiki to improve information sharing and collaboration. According to the article “More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia”, the wiki is easier to collect and share information and to document discussions on a topic, it can help people improve their processes and finish projects faster. Wikis, though simple and convenient, make it easier to share information. But there are several aspects to building a wiki. Users need to determine their own reasons for using wikis. For example, a project of a multinational company needs to be completed by people from all over the world. In this case, the wiki is a good choice. Wikis need everyone's cooperation to build them. When a fellow blogger posts, it's easier to see and respond.

    Unlike a blog, a wiki is a collaborative site that users can edit, update, and delete, while a blog is a personal site, usually created by individuals to share information. The main goal of wikis is for everyone to create a big project together. Rather than sending emails, wikis have a better idea of what people are doing and what needs to be done later. A Blog is a personal message that we can respond to and give different opinions about. And how blogs collaborate, literally we know that collaboration means that many different people are doing one thing for the same project, creating with the goal of a project. In the blog, we can add our partner's blog link to the blogroll, so that our blogs can be linked together. Our blog will appear in their partner's blog link. The topics and goals of our blogs are the same, so our blogs can be grouped together. I think we can use wikis for games. For example, our game is to create a story, each person can only say a word or a sentence. Then everyone follows what the previous person said, using their imagination to make the story interesting or possibly crazy. Because everyone can edit on the wiki, everyone can put a word or a sentence after the first person and ask the next person to continue. This can be a very interesting story or a very strange one.

    In addition, both blog and wiki have increased the flow of information, bringing more fun and convenience to people's lives. Therefore, it became more and more important in our life.

Cited:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write a Blunt and Unfiltered Blog, NY Times, March 3, 2008, p. C1, at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03walmart.html

"How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005, http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331 

The Digital Divide Description

     The topic I would like to do for the term paper is the digital divide. This is actually the first time I've heard this topic. After I searched this topic and learned some related concepts, I think this phenomenon does exist in society. First, I want to research and define what the digital divide is and what causes it. I'm going to talk about it from a couple of perspectives, such as social or education. Then, I'll find out how different people think about the digital divide, and how the digital divide will affect our life. I think some people may not know what the digital divide does in our life. So, I wanted to demonstrate the different effects of the digital divide on society. In addition, I'm going to show the advantages and disadvantages of the digital divide in this paper. For example, the digital divide allows certain functions to be used by certain people because some functions should not be made available to all people. But the digital divide would widen the gap between rich people and the poor. I'm going to define these different views of the digital divide. I might also add a solution to how to solve the disadvantage of the digital divide or the future of the digital divide. This is a preliminary summary, and I'll get more specific later. It's also possible to find more points during the research.