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To: Paul Senior who wrote (33484)	2/11/2009 10:37:04 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 78659

I think some of it (SI's recent strength) could be that Joe Everyman is starting to believe some of the pundits who say that if you haven't been in the market, this is a good time to start dipping your toes, and if Joe's online and searching for discussion and sees the name "Silicon Investor" there's a pretty good chance he's heard of it even if he's never used it before. I think I've mentioned before (somewhere, anyway) that it's not at all unusual for me to meet someone new at the racetrack and have them either say they've heard of "Silicon Investor" or read it, or even "You're SI Admin Bob?" or "You're SI Bob?" depending on when they became familiar with the site. I've got one friend who congratulates me on mentions in Barron's or Forbes before I even know about it. Which kinda brings me in a half-circle to a new and related point. I think that relative strength and weakness in SI's metrics could possibly be a leading indicator for the market at large. If my hypothesis that some of the increase in people, posts, and reading is a precursor to stock purchasing holds any water. Kinda the inverse of how this place nearly fatally imploded with the internet bubble bursting.