Hey, politicians aren’t the only ones who get to do fancy polls!

Walt and I had a bunch of them about a variety of tech topics that we pulled out to ambush, ooops, pose to speakers at our seventh D: All Things Digital conference last week.

For the D7, we commissioned a study of digital trends from Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates (PSB), a global market research and consulting company and a conference production partner.

PSB conducted 1,005 interviews within the general U.S. population–you know, real people who are not geeked out.

One showed–despite Silicon Valley hype–how Twitter was still in its infancy, in awareness, engagement and size, which we got Co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams to react to onstage. (They could care less.)

Another showed that the biggest problem that users of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone cited was the poor AT&T (T) network. (Sorry, Randall Stephenson!)

Another looked at the declines in usage of the MySpace social networking site, which we know its new CEO Owen Van Natta enjoyed reacting to in front of the crowd. (Okay, he did not enjoy it.)

Also, no one is paying for subscriptions to blogs, which the Huffington Post impresario Arianna Huffington said was okay, since consumers will only fork over money for “very weird porn.” (Yes, she said that!)

In any case, here is a selection of slides that were shown and discussed during various speaker sessions.

Click on any slide below to enlarge, then hit “next” or “previous” on either side of the slides to page through.

Well, I was kind of kidding at the end of a piece I wrote Friday about the possible top execs that Facebook might hire when I named Marc Andreessen at the end.

I mostly put the Netscape founder in there as a good comparison and to make a point about how Silicon Valley always has to elevate some techie to the status of Golden Geek of the Moment, declaring them the rulers of the digital sector.

Usually, their reign lasts as long as a potentate in some small and unstable country.

Nonetheless, in a piece related to BoomTown’s picks and also another post about Facebook’s actual search for a well-known Web exec to help lead the social-networking company, VentureBeat created a poll asking for reader input.

As you will see below, Andreessen did OK at 18% in the small sampling, while 21% wanted to let Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just be Mark. “Somebody else” got 14%.

Most interesting result and the winner? Almost 50% thought a dose of new management did not matter, as “Facebook is doomed.”

An aPokealypse?