This is an interesting thread, and encouraging not to be the only one hanging out on a limb, as it were. I'm curious if a special session might be proposed at the next conference on the whole subject of this survey enterprise related to technology use/adoption (prefer that to 'deployment' or 'penetration'), Internet behavior, perhaps bringing together the chief architects (met several of them recently at a conference in Austin, Texas, e.g., John Horrigan at Pew; James McConnaghey (sp?) at NTIA, etc.) from federal agencies as well as academics who have contributed to this tradition (e.g., UCLA, Tomas Rivera, etc.) and perhaps academics who have conducted extractions from these as contributions related to the digital divide (e.g., Hoffman and Novak; Katz; Kahin, Schement; Compaine, etc.). It seems a missed opportunity not to be asking more of this research theoretically and methodologically in terms of regional/local contexts and also given the fact that many public policy remedies are institutionally, not household, diven (e.g., e-rate, the TIF fund in Texas, etc.). And what to make of household use vs. connection to 'available' infrastructure (broadband studies by the RUS at the Dept. of Agriculture)? Suppose we called this initiative something like 'beyond diffusion' and started out with some rather new excavations, questions related to more structural issues, than consumer ones. That said, it would also be interesting to include such actors as Consumers Union (that has as yet not made much progress in assessing QOS and report carding/benchmarking telecom services? Or am I misinformed?) as well as Jupiter and other private sector research organizations (including Gartner, etc. who seem to be the sources that many state government offices depend on). Any takers? B. Lentz, Austin, Texas