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Unit 14: Collaborating via Blogs and Wikis

14.5 Keywords Notes

Blogs: These are essentially primary sources and can provide lively insights and perspectives
not documented by traditional sources.

Brevity: Information is brief if it is succinct and to-the-point.
Collaborative "Group Blogs": These blogs have more than one blogger are also common.
Modular Construction: It means that wikis can be simple or complex to meet user needs and
skill levels.
Wiki: It is a website, the content of which can be edited by visitors to the site, allowing users to
easily create and edit pages collaboratively.

14.6 Review Questions

1. Distinguish between blogs and wikis.
2. Evaluate blogs for collaboration.
3. Enumerate the points for assessment of blogs.

4. List the features of the blog to be evaluated.
5. What is the criteria for evaluation of blogs?
6. Enumerate the characteristics of Wikis.
7. Evaluate the wikis for collaboration.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. “news” 2. wiki

3. Blogs 4. personal
5. “edit” 6. History
7. True 8. False
9. False 10. True

11. True 12. True
13. wiki 14. WYSIWYG
15. Modular construction

14.7 Further Readings

Books Bill Williams, 2012, The Economics of Cloud Computing, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Borko Furht & Armando Escalante, 2010, Handbook of Cloud Computing, Springer.
Kevin Jackson, 2012, OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg & Andrzej Goscinski, 2011, Cloud Computing:
Principles and Paradigms, John Wiley & Sons.

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