Blog vs Wiki
Ten years ago blogs became really popular they opened new door for the networking. people were able to communicate by leaving comment or tagging URL or post itself. and now wiki made us to make collaborated work. Those two are similar. They explored new way to communicate with other people. But the way they were invented is totally different. (more on how you build your own Wikipedia)
Wiki is a information that people can change any time. It's getting bigger and bigger whenever new user comes and leave their ideas. but on the other hand, it could be biased information, so people use lots of citations from other media.
Blog is different people leave their opinion on their blog like right now what i am doing and other people can leave their comments below and can exchange their information through that. But outside user who is not the one made post can not change any information on the blog.
Both has good side and bad side. Wiki prevents biased information by many other sources but people can change your opinion whenever they want. but on the blog they can't do that but opinion used to be biased.
here is the point. convergence is one way that they can take advantages for both side.
Convergence can be one way that they can change their form of networking. Wiki is trying to invent their new way to go (Wikipedia looks hard at their culture) and blogs needs to be changed since they haven't changed for a while. i don't believe they have been progressed on their main form. but if they can find a way that they can take advantages from both side it would be great.
One disadvantage from wikipedia is that people can not communicate constantly based on their information. because they can not leave any comments on it and will not know who changed information. in this case i believe they can collaborate each other at the same or different flatform. so people can leave comments on the information and constantly communicate by blog name.
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I like your proposal of convergence between the 2 form of media. But how would that look like is something to think about. After all, an idea can be great but if its execution is lacking, the idea may fizzle out.
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