Blogs and wikis are both media technologies that convey information to readers. Wikis are pages where there are multiple people who contribute in to editing these pages so that information is pooled and constantly updated. But because its more of an open source project the information can be changed and be deemed untrue. There are constantly updates to wikis until the perfect information is put together in which contributors feel is correct. Contributors are given some sort of recognition. Wikis although have multiple contributors, these contributors don't interact in terms of editing the page and moving on. If there is a disagreement there doesn't need to be consent for one contributor to change what another contributor says.
Blogs on the other hand is a more journal like source of information. In blogs the information is written by a single author and contributions to the information or topic come in the form of comments or responses which do not change the original post of information. The information on the original blog post may be bias to a particular subject, but the beauty of blogs is that users can comment and respond to the posts and creates argument which then leads to people holding valuable conversations via the responses. Blogs create more interaction between contributors and there is no "I'll edit your post because its wrong on the wiki" and more "I disagree or agree because...". Though sometimes the contributions do get personal and people do get offended, its a great way to get insight and opinions from various people across the web.
Wilson, Michael. "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 June 2008. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
Dowd, Maureen. "Stung by the Perfect Sting." The New York Times. The New York Times, 25 Aug. 2009. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
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