Tom's Hardware wants you as a new recruit.

Tom's Hardware has experimented with online market research since before... my youngest child was born, Drew Cullen writes . Thousands have come along for the ride(s). And we are properly grateful to all of you who have joined all our online panels and answered all our online questions.

This has helped us hone our polling to the point where we have a separate business, with its very own name - MetriNets - and its very own web site .

Metrinets is a joint venture with The Register and Metafacts, of Berlin (which suplies all the market research backbone and does all the hard work ). We want you to join the MetriNets Experts panel . Registration takes around 15 minutes - less, if you're quicker.

MetriNets is running continuous polling on attitudes towards a welter of techologies and IT sectors. We're asking five per cent of our panels to participate each day. And we will publish the results regularly, with all members retaining access to their own data.

We're also working on a discount structure for market research reports that we may publish - but that needs the beavers in the background to work out the details.

What else? If you got this far you're probably interested. So here is the sign-up URL again.