Blogs Vs Wiki

Blogs are people's opinion on certain subjects they feel strongly about. The creators of these blogs are the only people who can make these definitive changes to what they have written. Others may respond by adding to what have been previously posted on these blogs. In doing so, this can lead to a lengthy discussion which runs on for many pages.

Wikis are similar to blogs in the sense that anyone can initially provide their opinion and/or their understanding on certain matter. However, unlike a blog, anyone thereafter, can change what you have previouly written and/or the ability to delete the contents in its entirety. As stated by Jimmy Wales, the public face of a wiki project, in a New York Times article that "we are mostly male computer geeks" but he added that" there might be a measure of diversity, but only in that we are from differnt parts of the world." This goes to show that it is not commonly used by the general public, but instead, these wiki users are basically the computer geeks of the world (The New York Times; Wikifedia Looks Hard At Its Users by Noam Cohen).

Blogs, on the other hand, are written by anyone who wishes to share their thoughts or feelings on practically anything ranging from their love lives to neighborhood watches and anything else imaginable. These various topics, in my opinion, appear to generate a great deal of collaboration from people in similar circumstances and in doing so they're engaging others to provide their opinions and/or ideas.

As I am not an avid wiki user, I don't know if this may exist already, but perhaps wiki would be good for live sport. For someone like me who was living in Scotland and now living here, I would love to read what wiki users throughout the world have to write/say when a major key event is currently being played out live in their country. The ability to have these people update scores and leader boards as they change would be cool.