Blogs vs. Wikis

Both wikis and blogs allow individuals to express their view on any subject they choose to.  A wiki allows the user to create and edit interlinked web pages, while a blog is like a personal online journal with the latest post shown first.  Wikis are used mostly for collaborative work, whose purpose are usually to provide relevant information for a targeted audience.  Blogs allow people to express themselves by publishing content (pictures, videos, links, text) they care about.  Bloggers may comment on each others' blog posts.
Convergence in today's networked world provides instant information to the receiver.  This allows for more efficiency in terms of the speed of communication, which may help businesses gain profits or allow people to receive news faster.
Blogs can be used for collaboration when individual bloggers express their own ideas and read each other's posts to learn and gain insight from one another.  For example, in Wilson's NYT article, "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid," bloggers' posts were read by police which lead to the eventual drug raid.
Wikis can be used by companies to promote their products based off of factual evidence.  These wikis should use "flagged revisions" in order to get the most accurate information possible, as explained by Cohen's NYT article, "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People."

Research Paper on Twitter

My term paper for CIS 3810 will contain research about the emergence of Twitter in social media.  I will discuss this in multiple perspectives, starting with the history of Twitter and how it came about.  I will also discuss the sociological, technological, economic, moral, anthropological, and educational perspectives of Twitter.  Comparisons between Twitter and other forms of social media will also be a subtopic for my paper.