BLogs Vs WIkis

Blogs
A blog is an online website in which it is one person's opinion on anything he wants to comment on. It can be about recent news, his different interests, or even about his local community. The one person can update this blog, and it is at his/her pace. You can call a blog an online public diary which other people can post their reactions to your blog post in the form of comments. Although blogging seems great, there are those who post negative comments about other people reveal in an NY Times Op-ed article  "Stung  by the Perfect Sting". In the Op-ed it stated "Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old model and Australian Vogue cover girl, was surprised to find herself winning a “Skankiest in NYC” award from an anonymous blogger."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/opinion/26dowd.html?_r=1


Wikis
Wikis are a form of an online database which content is user/community generated. Wikis actually started out as an open source project and now runs purely on donations. Unlike blogs, wikis can be updated often by many different users. Although this may increase the rate at which it is updated, it can also mean that information is incorrect as well. Like the blog, it is open to the public. Wikipedia is not the only place that have wikis, some websites create their own wikis which only have information they wish to provide, maybe about their company or a genre their site follows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wikis at work: Up from the grassroots by Rob Edmonds E.learning Age; Oct 2006; p. 14

Convergence and Collaboration
Today everyone expects things to get done fast and efficient. The convergence of old + new media does just that. Wikis make information accessible and easy to find instead of having to search through books, it has become a one stop shop of information which saves people time. Information is often posted right after reported on many blogs and gets the community involved in sharing their opinions on said topic,issue, or news.


New uses of Wikis
I cannot think of a new use for wikis at the moment but I did like the idea that one site did. This site is called www.Teamliquid.net and they are a e-sport dedicated website, specializing in starcraft(an RTS). They created their own database of information people new to this area can access and look up information. They call their database a Liquipedia ( http://wiki.teamliquid.net/ ).

The affect new media has in sports today

The project I am going to write about is the interaction between new media and sports today. How does new media affect sports? That will be the main question I will attempt to answer through my research. With the introduction of new media, many athletes themselves have created their own facebook profiles and fan clubs, and even created their own twitters. The chance to improve the market base or fan base can even be through the use of new media. Many opportunities arise with new media being incorporated. I will research different blogs, wikis, and even facebook pages to see how they use new media. I believe this will help in my understanding of what the affect of new media on sports is. Here are some examples of community and athletes using new media.

http://www.thejetsblog.com/
http://www.metsblog.com/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/OchoCinco?ref=ts

What is new Media?

New media in our generation is common to people who have grown up with it. Some examples of  technologies of new media is smart phones which utilize the use of internet, wiki's which is a user generated website of information, and even facebook which is used to connect people through the web. You can also say that new media is a more modern way of old media. If reading a book is old media, then reading an ebook is new media. The basis of new media is often based off old media.

Citations
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_oldvnew.htm

http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_whatisnm.htm

New to blogging - Daniel Wu

This is my very first blog so I really have no clue what to do. I am Daniel Wu.