Are you an ordinary internet user? Do you use what you find online? If so, read on ...

Are you Mr?Ms  Average? If so,
 this survey is just for you!

1709 Blog team member Aurelia tells us that Simone (a colleague of hers who hails from Italy) is doing some research for his PhD. His goal is to survey people who are casual technology users (i.e. not devoted geeks, nerds and obsessives) about their ideas of how creative works like pictures, music and writing are used on the internet. Says Aurelia, "It would be very helpful if you could take just a few minutes and fill out Simone's survey at http://www.aliprandi.org/en/survey".

This would be useful not only for Simone but also for those good folk at Creative Commons who do try to get their terms to reflect the way people use materials online, their expectations and their aspirations.

Simone provides a little further explanation of this legal/sociological survey, which is entitled "Copyright in the digital age: attitudes, social perception and level of awareness".

"The questionnaire takes approximately 15 minutes to complete; it is online and completely  anonymous (we do not ask your name and we do not record your IP address; so please relax and sincerely answer the questions). The results of this research will be included in my Ph.D. thesis and
made available with an open access/copyleft approach. Every person's participation is important in order to accomplish my research, so I hope that you will be able to dedicate the time to answer the survey. It would also be very useful and appreciated if you could share this announcement with your friends and colleagues".

Now's the chance for all you casual and non-addicted twitterers, facebookers and bloggers to do Simone a favour -- tell your friends!