Blogs vs Wiki

So blog and wiki's are the topic of the day, and I guess if i look down one post so is new vs old media. Any way, blogs are more personalized than wiki. Blogs also require very limited collaboration with others unlike a wiki. Blogs can even be seen as personal web pages and the posts on it go in reverse order of time and day. Wiki's are better built for companies. Many people can contribute to a wiki and it can become more of a source of knowledge from a group rather than a personal account like blogs. One example of wiki being used by companies can be seen with Tony Pagliarulo, the vice president of EMC. "Because his team had the most current information, they were able to make better decisions and get the project done faster."(http://www.cio.com/article/336818/More_on_How_to_Build_Your_Own_Wikipedia)
Both blogs and wiki seems to be fairly easy to use and even have many of the same tools like links and general support team for the sites. Since the world is become more connected, its important for information to be more connected too. Wiki's seem to fill this role very well, since it is much like a constant user based encyclopedia. Blog's can also do this, but in a much different way. Blogs could be linked, and people could have a large blog network which talks and comments on others, but that would act much like facebook.com or web forums.
As for how wiki can be used for something new... not sure right now.

In with the new

So old media wasn't always old. With constant changes and evolution to technology, new things come out making something that was new media, become old. So what do we look for the differences in old and new... hm. I guess for our generation (although probably true for past generations too) new media is mainly the better way of sharing information the quickest. So for example, books were once new media. The printing press was created and all was wondrous! Yay! But as time passed, quicker way of getting information through were created like newspapers or fliers. Then when electronics came around, new media started evolving quicker than ever. We now have things like blogs that act like journalism or e-books to replace going to the library.

New Media!

New media is vast and still expanding. It's source of power comes from technology far and wide, and well.. common. The internet is perhaps one of the biggest sources of this new media power. Others such as phones, and computers are technology that runs off the internet for its new media power.
The internet has proved its strength, flexibility and growth since its actual use in 1994. Before the use of the Web, hypertext systems were in control and considered superior. "The power of the Web is evident today, and should have been in 1994 when considered not against other hypertext systems but against its real competitors, then-popular Internet services such as Gopher and WAIS. (Bernerslee2003)" But now in 2010, the Web has grown to unimaginable size and now "it is television and video games that are seen as the Web’s competition (Bernerslee2003).
The internet has tremendous power over the growth of new media because everything feeds off of its energy, whether it is blogging or vlogging or emailing or watching videos or movies, you get the picture, it is all powered by this glorious web.
Old media has evolved to these new options of media because of a need. Speed and accessibility are extremely important. With a computer connected to the web, you can find just about anything, movies to books, museums and forums, it is a vast pool of knowledge accessible to anyone. Radio and TV has been replaced in such a way, and is all else currently changing. It would be foolish to not mention that it isn't always the media that changes the trend and have people follow, sometimes, people move away from the old media, and they just need to follow and catch up.

The world of MMO games.

My research topic is going to involve the gaming world. Online gaming has been growing and becoming more acceptable. The communication with in the game differs immensely from what you would find on online forums, but what might be the cause of this? Also, for many of the players, it has become an active job they work at to improve their "skills". What are causing these games to be more important that some real life affairs? Who knows, lets find out.

New Media Requirements

Well, seems like it was needed to create an account to blog on. Still not quite sure what blogging is and quite intimidated to be honest. But requirements are requirements and they must (almost) always be done (shifty eyes). Anyway, the blog is here, its done and ready to go.