Yesterday at an information session on comparative use of social media tools for conducting research surveys of citizen attitudes/opinions, there were 4 speakers each from private polling, research firms. 1 of them was international, a big one.

There was over and over the need to validate online poll results and online opinions, by supplementing with more traditional face-to-face survey tools with focus groups, telephone surveys, etc.

I find myself just not responding to ongoing stream of nasty comments.