Blogs vs wikis

Blogs are the individual posts and the wikis are done in group. Both blogs and wikis are new media that allows people to share the information. In blogs only the owner can edit and delete the information where as every user can edit and delete the information. Blogs is generally used to spread the news in their own words and wikis are generally used to do the group work. As in this article "Brooklyn blogs helps lead to drug raid" one blogger blogs that "Fighting and drug deals going down in the driveway of this house" which helps to catch the drug addicts. So blogs has also been helpful in finding criminals due to the blog post. In terms of wiki it is used in a different way. As in this article " How to use wikis for business" it writes that "The most well-know example of a wikis is wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by, well, anybody who feels like it". So wikis is used in this manner.