Both blogs and Wikis are important for regular individuals to get information from websites other than those of companies and website makers. Their are many similarities between the two. Firstly, they are both easy to set up, anyone can set it up in a matter of minutes without any sort of computer expertise. Secondly, they do not require any sort of .html for the basic look and are easily accessible for any device on the internet. They are also easy to edit and touch up and can be done so anywhere.
The difference however can be seen in many lights as well. On the one hand when Blogs can be centered around fiction writing, ones own personal ideas, and is highly subjective whereas blogs written are supposed to be centered around the truth and about some sort of day/event, a person, or something of factual substance. Secondly, anyone can edit wikipedia pages where as blogs are only able to edited by a person with permission to do so. The thing that blogs, such as the Huffington Post, offers versus Wikipedias, according to Virginia Heffernan's article Articles of Faith, is that it allows regular and up and coming individuals to post "curated news aggregation plus original reporting and opinion." Additionally, blogs can be used for collaboration in the sense that they can combine comments are articles and make the emergence of social media a vital part of articles that are updating by the second. The blog websites can also include allow individuals to submit articles to be published in order to lend a new perspective to individuals who choose to visit the blog.
To further the Wikipedia's, they can enable a comment section where people are able to add additional facts which would not be added to the normal page, such as unimportant topics regarding reviews, and other links to further ones research. Additionally, Wikipedia can track what users search for in an attempt to target them for specific advertisements.
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