Please Take This Survey

I've signed up with a new ad network called Federated Media recently started by John Battelle (one of the founders of Wired Magazine, according to the Wikipedia entry about him). In an effort to better match readers of this site to potential advertisers, Federated Media wants you all to take a brief survey. It's only a few questions: age, address, social security number, credit card info, bank account info, etc. (No, just kidding... they're not looking to steal your identity.) Apparently these surveys are important to advertisers, so if you have a few minutes it would be a great way to help the site out. And hopefully it will result in some better ads. Thanks.

(This should be a one-time thing... the survey will stay active for a few days and then close, and after that I don't think they'll need to collect survey data again. Oh, and if the survey says 'March 2006', just ignore that. I was supposed to link to the survey back in March, but I procrastinated.)

Miscellaneous

Posted on Mon May 15, 2006


Comments

hmm what is my total household income....
Over what period of time?
and hour, a week, a century perhaps?
Posted by Sharruma  on  Tue May 16, 2006  at  07:11 PM
Its a louzy survey anyway. As usual with these kind of drop-down menu question answers, I couldn't even properly pick the category in which I am employed. Well, I won't see the ads anyway as I use some handy FireFox extensions...

I couldn't resist. When asked on which 5 websites I spent most time, I answered:

1. MoH (of course!)
2. BBC
3. Porn
4. more porn
5. yet more porn
Posted by LaMa  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  12:12 AM
i did my part. i hope it helps the site to get more advertisers 😊
Posted by tapnclick  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  01:34 AM
Oh boy, more and better advertisements! I'm crapping my pants with joy!

Yeah, I know you need advertisers to keep the site going, but I still think that the people who work in marketing are one of the lowest forms of life on earth.
Posted by Citizen Premier  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  08:04 AM
I did it! I hope everyone else voted MoH as their top site!
Posted by thunder  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  09:09 AM
I did it. I was waiting for it to give me a popup that says, "HAHA, you spend HOW MUCH time on the internet??? BAHAHAHAHAHA! GET A LIFE."
Posted by Maegan  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  10:50 AM
I'm in 😊
Posted by oppiejoe  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  10:55 AM
Let me get this straight. We should send in consumer data so your website can operate in the black? Cut me off a piece of that and I'll do it. 😊
Posted by eriC draveS  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  05:31 PM
As long as the advertizing upgrades to something better than toilet pranks, this'll be good.
Posted by Vryce  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  07:24 PM
Did it just for you, Alex.
Posted by booch  on  Wed May 17, 2006  at  09:52 PM
Done Alex.

and oh yeah, eriC, nothing in life is free and the quite minimal task of completing a three minute survey is really not much at all for Alex to ask of us considering how much work he puts into the site.

just my opinion 😊
Posted by Chuck  on  Thu May 18, 2006  at  02:45 PM
Not a very well-designed survey, but I took it anyway.

(Braces self for the resultant avalanche of spam.)
Posted by Big Gary  on  Thu May 18, 2006  at  04:29 PM
Very happy to do the foolish survey because...

Thank you Alex.
Posted by Peter  on  Sat May 20, 2006  at  04:34 PM
Will taking the survey bring back the Dusty girl?
Posted by Wally  on  Sun May 21, 2006  at  11:22 AM
Aaaaah, the Dusty Girl!!!

YES YES YES YES!!!!!!
Posted by LaMa  on  Sun May 21, 2006  at  03:39 PM
Isn't Alex planning to come back from Edinburgh?

T.
Posted by DukeLeto  on  Sun May 21, 2006  at  04:22 PM
Could be we will never hear from him again... Nessy must have been hungry...
Posted by TWM  on  Sun May 21, 2006  at  07:20 PM
Great, now we'll have to build yet another Alex robot. . .
Posted by Accipiter  on  Mon May 22, 2006  at  05:49 AM
Despite rumours to the contrary, I have not got Alex locked in our cupboard and I have not sent a replicant back to San Diego.
Nope.

*looks innocent*
Posted by Boo  on  Mon May 22, 2006  at  07:39 AM
Maybe the whole Edinburgh trip was a hoax meant to fool him or one meant to fool us. We'll never know...or maybe we will... who knows, this whole hoax business can be deceiving...

T.
Posted by DukeLeto  on  Mon May 22, 2006  at  05:52 PM
Wait, Alex went all the way to Edinburgh to see readers. I practically live in his neighborhood! Heh, I bet we share the same grocery store.
Posted by Razela  on  Mon May 22, 2006  at  11:31 PM
For some reason taking a trip down to the local Ralphs grocery store doesn't seem as exciting a prospect as going to Edinburgh. 😉
Posted by The Curator  in  San Diego  on  Thu May 25, 2006  at  11:48 PM
Ralphs, damn it, I go to Vons. My dreams are shattered.
Posted by Razela  on  Fri May 26, 2006  at  12:48 AM
The survey thing is still working Alex as I did it today.
And I agree with Chuck that it's the least we can do to help out Alex. Afterall, if it wasn't for this site, our little UK adventure would never have happened!
Posted by Nettie  on  Tue May 30, 2006  at  09:52 AM
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