Blogs are often for people to express their ideas and opinions on all sorts of topics. Many blogs are often used as a diary or journal. A way of expressing the thoughts in the mind of people whether it is true or not. "Everyone who wished to be would be a publisher; democratization of information (and, consequently, power) would follow." This quote by Kathy E. Gill gives us insight to the idea that blogs is an informal and not a credible source of information. Everyone can be a publisher whether they have the credentials or not and opinions aren't facts. In the recent light of fake news opinions have begun to be passed off as facts. Blogs are not credible sources in the world and in many offices blogs are used more as a social platform than a platform for information.
Wikis are websites which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. Often times they are used as databases. At my former company we had a wiki for the acronyms that everybody was allowed to join in on and correct. Most of the time the information that we needed was easily found on the database. Wiki is slowly becoming a reliable source of information. Wikipedia itself has begun to change due to the staggering amount of false information that is on our fingertips today. "The popular encyclopedia, which has drawn criticism for inaccuracies, says it will try assigning editors to some of its entries.These trusted volunteers likely would have to approve public edits before they're published to English Language stories about
living people." In my workplace my manager and director usually use wikipedia as a rough depiction of the information they need and it has become a useful tool.
Overall, blogs are more opinion based entries where people share their own opinions and ideas. While wikis have come a long way to become the online encyclopedia of information that we can rely on to a certain point.
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