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but with a focus on external, topical issues like news, politics or an open source soware
project. Quadrant three is the area set aside for newspaper-like columnists who write per-
sonal opinions about newsworthy or topical issues. Hence there is an important split in
the blogging world, also noted by Schiano et al. (2004) and Williams and Jacobs (2004),
between a lone individual’s work and that of a group. Various studies seem to conrm
the prevalence of Quadrant one—the personal journal (see, for example, Viégas 2005 and
Schmidt 2007a, 2007b).
In addition, a number of authors have noted that the content of blogs in some ...