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What are the differences between a blog and
a wiki?
A wiki is similar to a normal web site,
but where every page has an edit button, and
everyone by default is given permission to press
the edit button.
A blog is a web site with mainly a single
page, and that page displays individual announcements
or "news items" in a latest-news-first
order.
A comparison table
| Blog |
Wiki |
- personal, less collaborative.
a journal entry or posting
is owned by poster
|
- can be personal but open
to collaboration. a node/topic
is considered public space
|
- text is considered to be
static: once posted, the posting
doesn't change (not true, of
course, but expected)
|
- aim is creation of documents
(individual pages as well as
the entire wikiweb)
|
- monological: typically monologue
with audience commentary
|
|
- temporal: last in first out
|
- a-termporal: nodes change
not by time but by way of development
|
- captures change in thinking/self/ideas
|
- doesn't capture changes in
thought/ideas, but creates
artefacts of those changes
|
- speech: spontaneous, non-revisable
and as permanent as memory
|
- text: considered, revised,
and as permanent as print
|
- generally light on cross
linking: dominantly sequential
but
research blogs and others can
create extensive hypertextual
webs
but
creating internal links is
painful and secondary to the
text
|
- encourages cross linking:
dominantly structural, a-temporal
|
- links used to connect outside
the blog
|
- hypertext linking central
to text creation
|
- knowledge accumulates at
the top
- knowledge is static but contextual:
situated - dominantly chronological
- but essays are possible
|
- knowledge becomes webbed:
situated, contextualized
but
knowledge is ephemeral: it
changes, can be changed
|
- immediate: written in the
moment, written of the moment
|
- mediated: written in the
topic, of the topic
|
(BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY, 2005: Adapted under
Creative Commons Licence 2.5)