Blog v Wiki

In today's society, we have numerous ways to network with each other. Media convergence is important to people in today's world such as for businesses. Blogs and Wikis are two forms of new media that helps communicate information across from one to another. Blogs are more of an one person's opinionated contribution about their personal life and where other people can provide feedback and comment on their post. While wiki is more of a group collaboration, where anyone in that group can contributed editing the page.

In the readings, "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid," by Michael Wilson we see that bloggers from the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn contributed information to help their community take down a crack house. The blogger's posted on BayRidgeTalk.com, on the events and drug activities that were happening inside and outside of the 93rd street crack house. After providing these information, people in their community filed complain to their local precinct and it led to an investigation to bring down the drug dealers.

In another reading, "An Internal Wiki That's Not Classified," by Noam Cohen, we can see that how Diplopedia helped prepared and organized memo and biographies for State Department. Unlike Wikipedia, where anyone can contribute to the page, people that contributed false information or vandalism on Diplopedia can be tracked down.

Blogs can be used for collaboration where two bloggers could write about the same topic and their viewers can look at both blogs to gather information for themselves. Wiki could have more restriction on what information are accurate letting notable users post on it.

Outline to Research Project

The research topic I chose was "eBay: Community or Bazaar?" I chose this research topic because I have a very high interest and also involved in the eBay community. eBay being a new media in today's society have impacted the way we shop and sell. For my research I am planning to look at most of the prospective, such as economic, sociological,technological, and also moral. I already have a few positive and negatives impacts off the top of my head, such as international sellers and how its good that we can get products for cheaper than our local retail store. It is a positive benefit for us the buyer, but negative impact on our economic growth. Since eBay is my daily hobby, I would have a lot to say how eBay affects me and will change the future.