We received this email yesterday from Dr. Barnes:

My name is Nora Barnes and I am a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Currently I am conducting the first academic study on blogs, and would appreciate your help. I hope to be able to report on what motivates bloggers, how they handle legal and ethical issues, and how blogs have helped promote businesses or views.

I would really be pleased if I could include you in my study. The survey is short and should take less than five minutes. I would be happy to email, fax, or call you. Please let me know if I can contact you and what the best way might be. I would be happy to share the findings of my study with you and send you a gift for participating. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Dr. Nora Barnes

I asked permission to post her contact info (nbarnes@umassd.edu), which she gladly gave. So if you’re interested in participating and becoming a part of academic history, send her an email and tell her you’d like to take the survey.

And no, we didn’t take the free gift!

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