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Oct 11th, 2007 by alexanderhayes

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On the cusp of Alan Levine’s gig about to be underway here in Sydney and the Mobilizethis event about to kick off next week ( come on folks….jam the rooms and get involved ) I was asked today ( innocently ) what the difference was between a blog and a wiki ?

My answer was that I’d think about it and reply tommorow.

This is the reply.

A blog is a place where people live, work, breathe and otherwise rant and rave about all sorts of stuff which is a pretty amazing thing when you think of how much time is spent blogging….the act of connecting.

Here’s a link packed with amazing blogs in the blogroll I picked up tonight via Twitter from MS Cofino in Bangkok, Thailand.

Twitter ? A smaller blog but longer and infinetly more intense or diverse or whatever you want to call it.

Twitter seems to be going off at the moment and the role of blog’s, wiki’s and the plethora of social networking tools which connect the stable side of connecting conversations with the not so stable , closed and seemingly ridiculously overloaded with rubbish tools which are free but wasting our time spaces seem all now to be interlaced and inter-populated if there is such a term

On the other hand I could point to people like Will Richardson who blogs on bloggers who blog via his wiki which is filled with bloggers who are blogging about blogging and linking to other bloggers who have blogged, are blogging , are building blogs or are in the process of writing in wikis about bloggers who have blogged about blogging.

I picked up the blogging about blogs bit from Graham whose got some great links to bloggers blogging ;

Come to think of it Artichoke has some great links to bloggers who are undermining and so on;

21st Century Collaborative

3quarksdaily

:: ed(ge)ucation design ::

a musing space: a performance in progress

A2K v DMCA in Australia

blog of proximal development

Brandon Hall Analyst Blog

Catch the Wave

Cathartic Heat

Chalkface 2.0

Changing the World (and other excuses for not getting a proper j

Chess-Squared

Choice Learning

Christopher D. Sessums

cj’s

Clark Aldrich’s Style Guide for Serious Games & Simulations

confused of calcutta

Dangerously Irrelevant

e-Learning Acupuncture

EdTech Solutions - Teaching Every Student

EdTechUK

Educating the Dragon

Educational Thinking — Musings on Systems and Change

Eurozine articles

Explorations in Learning

Holistic and Integral Education

i d e a n t

Janet Hawtin : Weblog

Jill Hammonds EdBlog

johndilworth.com

jokay.com.au

Karyn’s erratic learning journey

Louise von Randow: Thinking ICT

Opening shots across the bow

pasta and vinegar

PLEs etc.

Pru Mitchell : Weblog

Pruned

randomselections

Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version

Reaching Out

Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog

School Design Studio

Sean FitzGerald : Weblog

Sean’s Emerging…

Slow Learning

Social Software Affordances

SocialTech

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 2.0

Street Use

Tangled up in Purple

Tarina

Teaching Generation Z

Teaching in the digital age.

Turning the Supertanker

Chris Sessum’s has a pretty impressive blogroll with plenty of examples of wh’s blogging on whom;

David Warlick
Barbara Ganley
Vicki A. Davis
Anne Davis
Ewan McIntosh
George Siemens
Ulises Mejias
Random Walk in E-Learning
Clarence Fisher
Leigh Blackall
TechCrunch
Will Richardson
Stephen Downes
danah boyd
David Tosh
Terry Freedman
Miguel Guhlin
Jay Cross
jill/txt
Bud Hunt
learning.now
Steve Hargadon
Jeremy Hiebert
Nancy White
Brian Lamb
Brian Grenier
Dave Cormier
Ben Werdmuller
Kathy Sierra
David Jakes
Brian Crosby
John Pederson
Steve Burt
Bill Fitzgerald
Tom Hoffman
Miles Berry
Karyn Romeis
Joan Vinall-Cox
Susan Wu
Tim Lauer
Kelly Christopherson
Howard Rheingold
Henry Jenkins
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
D’Arcy Norman
Alec Couros
Karl Fisch
Wesley Fryer
Lilia Efimova
Doug Belshaw
Christian Long
Derek Wenmoth
Spotlight blogging Digital Media & Learning
Artichoke
Ze Frank
Chris Lehmann
Cognitive Edge
Scott McLeod
Emma Duke-Williams
Quentin D’Souza
Jeff Utecht
Konrad Glogowski
Tony Karrer
Bryan Alexander
Sharon Peters
Steve Dembo
Stephanie Sandifer
Mark Oehlert
Teachers Teaching Teachers
Liz Lawley
Ross Mayfield
Lawrence Lessig
Joyce Valenza
Doug Johnson
Dean Shareski
David Weinberger
DUNCANDOIT
Tom Hoffman
Doug Noon
Wendy Drexler
Kara Dawson
Alan November
EdTech@UF
Techlearning blog
Tim Wilson
Terry Elliott
Gardner Campbell
David Wiley
Teemu Arina
Artichoke
Janet Clarey

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find major blog-aholics who seemingly have time to sort bloggers into ‘dreamers’ and other categories like Dave Pollard;

Artists & Dreamers

Colourblind Photoblog

Communicatrix

Contentious

Creating Passionate Users

Crispyneurons Photoblog

Daily Dose of Imagery

Learning Lessons of Nixon

Technical Difficulties

Texting

A Thousand Words Photoblog

Business/KM Blogs

Fortune on Innovation

Terry Frazier

Chuck Frey

Flemming Funch Absara

Jon Husband - Wirearchy

Judith Meskill’s SocSW Blog

Misbehaving

Gary Lawrence Murphy

Myst Dave’s Business Posts

Social Software Group

EcoBlogs/EcoNews

Carnival of the Green

Conservation International

Environmental Defence Canada

Environmental Health News

Environmental NewsNet

Howling at a Waning Moon

Human & Other Extinctions

Impact Analysis

Intentional Communities

Donella Meadows Archive

Ontario Environment Directory

Population Reference Bureau

Sustainability Institute

Union of Concerned Scientists

WorldChanging

World Resources Institute

News/Miscellany

CommonBits Multimedia

Political Blogs

American Politics Jnl

American Street

Asheville Global Reporter

Baghdad Burning

Blargblog

Blog Left

Bob’s Links and Rants

Body & Soul

Buzzflash

Carpe Datum

Center for American Progress

Guerilla News Network

Just Well Mixed

Left Coaster

Liberal Street Fighter

Revolutionary Moderation

Salon Blogs

Everybody Thinks I’m Working

ExplodedLibrary

Feral

Fiona

Fried Green Al Qaidas

Girl in the Locker Room

Gone to Carolina

Gripes from the Grumpy Girl

Hail Dubyas

It’s Not Me It’s You

Dick Jones Patteran Pages

Maxine

My So-Called Lesbian Life

The Salon Blog Community

Scott Rosenberg

Secular Blasphemy

Tales from the Park Side

Thrilling Days

Wandering Willow

World According to Chuck

World O’ Crap

So my answer concludes with a reply…….. that invites those who know the difference between a blog and a wiki to join me and others at Mobilizethis next Friday 19th October and to draw down the distinctions between what role these new and emergent ICT’s like Facebook, YouTube and MySpace have amongst the Twitterings and “traditional” spaces such as blogs and wiki’s with those who havent the faintest what we are on about and why we are doing it.

Bill blogs.

If he was postering he’d be prosecuted.

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2 Responses to “Bill Blogs : Other’s Ask What’s A Blog ?”

on 12 Oct 2007 at 1:42 pm1chess » Bill Blogs : Other’s Ask What’s A Blog ?

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on 16 Oct 2007 at 10:56 am2Ian Glendinning

There is a fundamental difference between a blog and a wiki (though of course you can configure either to do much the same things if you want).

A blog is fundamentally in time order - a log - with one or more pre-defined authors posting the items of interest, (usually involving more links than content) and others potentially commenting - but not usually editing the posts.

A wiki is any structure page-wise, but the fundamental point of a wiki is that a reader may (generally) edit what’s there in more or less real-time (often subject to some controls)

In practice blogs can inlcude pages of any structure too and either can be used to give posting / edit / comment rights to anyone. But that’s a matter of the application rather than whether it’s called a blog or a wiki.

I guess what I’m constructively suggesting, rather than just being a pedant is that if neither of those aspects is significant to what you’re using the web pages for, then don’t call them a blog or a wiki - it just confuses the users - call it what it does.

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