Shouldn't people not want to buy as the price is relatively low again and Wikileaks wants to use BitCoins? Also there were many problems with Dwolla last week, which lead to many people without funds to spent in their account. According to Google there was never so much about BitCoin in the news as today: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=bitcoin&date=mtd&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N