Blogs are usually more subjective because it depends on how the one writer feels. The writer creates a post about their opinions and it is based on a specific timeline. But one has to be careful on what to write because in the article “Stung by the Perfect Sting”, by Maureen Dowd, a blogger was sued for defamation suit.
Wikis on the other hand are written by people all over the world inputting their own experience and knowledge to others, so Wikis would tend to be more objective. In the article “A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia?” by Noam Cohen, the problems with Wikis are that the information is on it cant be relied on to be true or false because Wikis are constantly being updated.
The importance of convergence in today’s networked world is magnificent. New media such as blogs and wikis are able to correlate with one another giving us a way to communicate in a more efficient manner. But with everyone able to access all these kinds of information, can’t be a good thing if private things like personal blogs are public. In order for blogs to be used for collaboration, they need a feature to allow other bloggers to add information onto the blogs with the consent of the owner. But since this feature might be too unsafe, the only way to contribute to the page is by leaving comments or ideas on the articles already posted.
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