Although blogs are meant for a single person's use to post on, they also can be used for collaboration between people. According to the article, "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog," veterans are sharing their experiences of war with the new media world. Like this, blogs can be used to bring people's common interests and ideas together for a sole purpose. In regards to wikis, there should not be any change made. Wikis are sources of reliable information passed on and edited by experts in the field. As a result, these sites should be kept consistent and professional. It does not need to appeal aesthetically because the content itself is appealing to whomever is utilizing it.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Blogs vs. Wikis
In American culture, blogs and wikis have both become a phenomenon with the rise of the Internet. Blogs have become tremendously popular amongst the younger generation, with websites like Tumblr and Google's Blogger trending across the nation. Wikis have also become popular, with students and hopeful learners exploring sites like wikipedia to obtain information. Blogs and Wikis both allow netizens in the Internet world to post, publish, and share their ideas with whomever they want. The greatest distinction between the two is that blog posts are written by a single person, while wiki posts are contributions of many people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki).
Although blogs are meant for a single person's use to post on, they also can be used for collaboration between people. According to the article, "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog," veterans are sharing their experiences of war with the new media world. Like this, blogs can be used to bring people's common interests and ideas together for a sole purpose. In regards to wikis, there should not be any change made. Wikis are sources of reliable information passed on and edited by experts in the field. As a result, these sites should be kept consistent and professional. It does not need to appeal aesthetically because the content itself is appealing to whomever is utilizing it.
Although blogs are meant for a single person's use to post on, they also can be used for collaboration between people. According to the article, "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog," veterans are sharing their experiences of war with the new media world. Like this, blogs can be used to bring people's common interests and ideas together for a sole purpose. In regards to wikis, there should not be any change made. Wikis are sources of reliable information passed on and edited by experts in the field. As a result, these sites should be kept consistent and professional. It does not need to appeal aesthetically because the content itself is appealing to whomever is utilizing it.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Social Networking: A purposeful loss of privacy
Social networking has become the new way to communicate between friends, colleagues, and coworkers. Some companies even use social networks to market themselves to the countless numbers of users within the networking platform. There are over a billion active users that go on Facebook whom all have profile pictures, tagged pictures, status updates, and interests. Now, uploading all of these things would not be a problem if you know how to change your privacy settings; however, if you do not, these information will be open to the world to see for who knows how long. Also, there are loopholes to information being leaked on social media and privacy being breached. Is there a way to prevent this loss of privacy? Or will this just be something we need to get used to as the new media generation?
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