Blogs and Wikis are two of the most significant sources of information on the internet today. Wikis are part of the most largest Encyclopedia to date. Blogs can be considered the most accurate primary source, being as how the source of it comes from the blogger himself/herself.
Blogs unlike wikis have no control on grammar and content, unless it violates the rules of the blogging website due to profanity, nudity or things of that matter. However even so, blogging websites give free control to the blogger in that they may post whatever they feel like, Even if it's just one word. What you would most likely find on a blog is literally a diary of the blogger. Blogging their personal feelings and the daily events they go through. Blogs help fill the gap in what is going on in the world through the eyes of the average citizen of the internet. NY Times, Michael Wilson wrote in his article "Brooklyn Blog Help Leads to Drug Raid" how a neighborhood blog helped the police find two crack houses, and managed to identify the suspects. Knowledge like that is incredibly powerful, because it can be used as a witness source to testify against the crime.
Wikis are more controlled than they were when they were initially created in 2001. Wiki's could have been considered as blogs because they had no rules in terms of grammar, content or structure. The problem with that was that being one of the biggest encyclopedias to date, it has to hold some integrity, which became a problem when inaccurate or completely false information would get posted. For example when "Wikipedia entries about Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd falsely stated both U.S. senators had died." According to John D. Sutter in his article "Wikipedia: No Longer the Wild West". Even in their controlled nature now, Wikipedia still offers a ton of information disposable at the hands of anyone that can view it. Perhaps sometime in the future it can even offer complete online courses.
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