Blogs and Wiki's have become a vital part of modern media and enabled everyday people to collaborate any information and ideas. They both improved the flow of communication allowing the world to be more interconnected. I believe convergence is extremely important because it allows everyone to have their own global presence. It allows you to catch up with friends and tend to your personal life while also being able to establish your professional side. According to Information week, they mention that wiki can be defined as the simplest online database that could possibly work. Its a quick web page that anyone with permission can create or edit. (InformationWeek, 2005) I believe that wikis and blogs both have this creative freedom characteristic. They allow you to present your ideas and information and also enable other people to present their own viewpoints. According to "Stung by the Perfect Sting", blogs and wikis give you creative freedom which can be a positive or a negative depending on the user. There is always positives and negatives to any action and for collaboration and transparency it is really a give and take.
Blogs can be used for collaboration because users create postings and viewers add their own comments. This allows a free form of communication where either party can express their thoughts on a particular subject.
I think a cool way to use a wiki (since its a simplistic database) is to create an extended study guide for maybe a large test or subject you would like to learn about. Maybe a whole page on finance or accounting where people can add their own expertise or personal way about learning a specific topic. Essentially it would be an easy platform to compare and share notes in an easy and digestible format.
Your notetaking idea for Wikis is really interesting, especially because people can see what's already on there and won't have to re-upload notes that have already been recorded. It's also useful for when people are absent. I had a professor who compiled a set of notes for the students to study from and this would take out a lot of his work by allowing students to access it freely.
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