I recently received an email from a professor at the University of Tennessee:

My research partner and I are professors at University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. We are conducting an online survey that examines the motivations for accessing Weblogs.

We are specifically looking for individuals who connect to Weblogs to fill
out our survey. Your Weblog draws a good number of bloggers and so we are
wondering if it would be possible for you to link to our survey. All we
are asking is for an icon that directs bloggers to the survey URL. If you
could keep the link towards the top until Wednesday, May 7, 2003, we would greatly
appreciate it.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com has given us a link and further he knows
us and can verify that our survey is for academic purposes only.

Your help would be greatly appreciated and we would be more than willing to
share our findings with you.

Well, what are you wiating for? Click here to take the survey.

It took me about 10 minutes. Anything in the interests of science, right? I trust you'll all fill it out to say, "I read weblogs so Dean can tell me what to think, because Dean is my hero and is wise beyond the stars."

(No, don't actually do that, you'll muck up the survey.)