Blogs vs Wikis: What's the Difference?

Hey Guys,

Lets talk about blogs and wikis and the power behind each of the two platforms. Blogs are personalized entities that speaks to a persons character, and often is more contemporary in notion. When looking at Tumblr, a very popular blog site that makes use of gifs, memes, posts, etc., Tumblr often matches the persons interest. Personal blogs speak to a person's personal interests, and thus we can see the relationship as Tumblr as a blogging website. These blogs have the power to connect with hundreds of thousands of people instantly, and allowing people to share their voice and thoughts on matters. Furthermore, blogs are often filled with very curious pieces of information to have handy, that are often not explored through modern scientific approaches. In the grand scheme of things, many open source projects are "blog like" in that it's a community of people working together in editing, and fixing open source projects to be more accessible to all. There is a major problem with blogs in that they are slowly but surely dying out. Tumblr being the most popular blog site has been reportedly getting less and less traffic to the website every year. Personally, having worked in advertising and marketing, I know for sure that many people avoid doing work on tumblr because the reach is so low and thus not lucrative.

Wikis on the other hand are much more versatile in content and relate to a persons multiple interest. A single blog is focused on some subset of ideas, a wiki has an enormous library of content that a person can easily find a sense of belonging in.  For example, the "FANDOM" wiki's where we get our Game of Thrones information or [insert anime name here].wikia.com information. These are just examples of how a wiki can be more tailored to a persons interests or multiple interests and give information, trivia, etc. Wiki's often carry more lucrative information than blogs, as blogs are more central to the user, and wikis are more central to the communities. They do lack a social component and a community component, as infiltrating these circles is very difficult because of long standing users and communication through commenting is limited. Furthermore, there are measures being taken where wiki information is validated and protected, so that articles keep their integrity and truthfulness. This removes the blogging aspect and community building aspect as you must be 100% correct and site proper sources to have something on the wikipedia pages, and not everyone has the capacity to follow this criteria to the T.

Sources: Tumblr Isn't Growing
               Wikipedia Limiting Changes

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