Convergence: Convergence has allowed voice, video and data to interact seamlessly on mobile devices, websites and has become less technical to the point users can create websites, integrate video, images and text to tell compelling stories, be journalistic or simply anecdotal. It has allowed the average user to become a media powerhouse which just a few clicks of the mouse.
Blogs v Wikis.
I think that blogs are more collaborative than wikis. In my use of both, blogs tend to be more interactive and invokes user response and provides for more social interaction - they tend to tackle more social issues. Wikis on the other hand deal with social issues as well but they tend to be more formal in their writing style - encyclopedic/periodical in nature. Although commentary may be made on wikis, they tend to present information rather than invoke social interaction.
Blogs can be used for collaboration in a class setting such as ours, in a workplace by departments, in a global setting by a research group or politically for social change. For example, the so called "Arab Spring" which saw an uprising in the Arab world just a few years ago was fueled quite-a-bit through social media and blog sites such as the one by Lina Ben Mhenni. Also, blogs can allow retailers to interact more directly with their shoppers to gain more direct information about their shopping experience preferences, etc. as in the case of Walmart. Finally, law enforcement may use blogs to help reduce crime story on drugs and how blogging help law enforcement officials foil a drug ring in Brooklyn.
New use for Wikis:
I think wikis may be used in the future to develop new academic libraries and allow academic institutions around the world to contribute their research on specific topics to a central, global wiki repository.
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