Anem1’s Weblog

I see blogs as participatory tools for posting information. The moderator or administrator has the highest level of control, although others can contribute posts and or make comments. Once a contributor adds a blog post, it stays relatively static unless the moderator edits it or someone posts a comment about it. Thus, blogs are useful for more static information.

Wikis allow the administrator to give contributors a greater level of control in that any contributor can significantly change the content and those changes can be tracked. Thus, users have an idea who has changed the content and what has been changed. Wikis seem to be useful for collaborative projects (such as committee work) where many people are contributing to a project and changes need to be made on a regular basis. Wikis are also useful for projects in which librarians want users to contribute actual content (such as subject guide wikis). In cases such as these the librarians must be willing to relinquish the gatekeeper control that we are used to having with traditional pathfinders.