Blog vs Wiki

                  Blogging has become one of the most simple ways of sharing our views and thoughts about topics that we are interested, while wiki allows many users to make meaningful contribution and exchange their ideas in various unique ways.  Jimmy Wales,Wikipedia's founder, stated that knowledege sharing is enhanced by open, flexible, and rapid collaboration, and I agree with him in the following ways.

                 Wiki's main difference with blogging is the management of its content. With a blog, writers as such could express freely their views and thoughts about the topics of their interest. However, things get complicated when irrelevant comments/ messages starts appearing, and effect of preventive measures is minimum at best. 

                  Wiki's exclusive content management system is ideal for a concise, easy to digest piece of summarized information. For example in the article " an internal wiki that's not classified ", Stacie, a special assistant at the United States Embassy in Rome, was delighted at how helpful an internally build interactive, collaborative wiki can be. Not only saving up alot of operating costs of printing papers, but also ensure that its content is well organized and up to date. 

                   Information Technology formed the backbone for many today's advanced gears. For example cloud computing and storage, a decentralized way of updating, retriving, and analyzing information in real-time to give its users the next best solution/ recommendation. Having such an intergrated technology is crucial for firms that seek to obtain a competitive advantage is this data-centric era.

                   I think wiki could be more interactive in the future, for example, users could use visualization and virtualization method to envision certain topic for discussion. For example if a particular wiki is about astrophysics, users could put on specialized glasses (such as Virtual Reality glasses) to allow them to experience at first hand.