As difficult as it was to determine this number, it would be impossible to calculate all the sociological postings on Internet mailing lists or World Wide Web sites. Of course, you need to apply the same critical scrutiny to Internet material that you would use on any printed resource (Sociological Abstracts 1998). Researchers usually rely on computers to deal with quantitative data-that is, numerical measures- but electronic technology is also assisting us with qualitative data, such as information obtained in observation research. Numerous software programs such as Ethnograph and Nud*ist allow the researcher not only to record his or her observations, like a word processing program, but also to identify common behavioral patterns or similar concerns expressed in interviews. For example, after observing student in a college cafeteria and recording your observations over several weeks, you could then group your observations related to certain variables, such as “soror-ity” or “study group” (Dohan and Sanchez-Jankowski1998).