Today I took this survey: http://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu, "a general social survey of weblog authors being conducted at the MIT Media Laboratory." Other people should consider taking it too.
I'm a big fan of Internet sociology, having done some of my own myself. I emailed the survey's author afterwards and asked to see the results when they're ready. I said that I myself had been torn between doing a grad degree in sociology or going to law school. Obviously, I chose the latter. But my interests have remained the same. Instead of measuring how people used the Internet I decided to do advocacy to protect people's abilities to use it as they see fit. But to do that effectively the law needs to be better informed by the sociology, and more of these kinds of projects should be referenced in legal literature.
In emailing back and forth I also shared my undergrad thesis from 1996, and had cause to reflect on what it was like to prepare it. It was quite the technical ordeal - I was running SPSS to compile the data on my tiny little underpowered 386, and had to go out and buy an extra FOUR megs of RAM in order to have the minimum *EIGHT* to run the program...