Just looking at some of the headlines in today's news makes me bullish. Not that many news outlets are calling Bitcoin dead or a failure this time around compared to 2011.
I would say that more than half the news articles have a positive or neutral stance on Bitcoin:
"Bitcoin fans put brave face on price fall"
"Bitcoin Explained: Online Currency Has Real-World Investors"
"'Bitcoin is not a repository of value, yet'"
"Bitcoin exchange halted after panic 'froze the trade engine!'"
"Bitcoin gaining wider acceptance"
"Bitcoin Has Traditionally Been Volatile: Kenna"
"Yes, Bitcoin is volatile. But it's still got defenders."
"Gold, Twinned With Bitcoin?"
"'Zerocoin' Add-on For Bitcoin Could Make It Truly Anonymous And Untraceable"
"Would Mark Zuckerberg buy Bitcoins? The Winklevii did"
"Bitcoin volatility caused by surge in demand, slow software"
"Bringing Derivatives To Bitcoin Should Help Stabilise The Price"
"Bitcoin anarchy in need of some rules"
"DDoS cripples Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox after trading resumes"
"The Libertarian Party Is Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations"
"I Tried Hacking Bitcoin And I Failed"
"Bitcoin volatility due to growing pains: backer"
"Largest Bitcoin exchange under fresh DoS attack"
Of course, there's the usual reporters repeating phrases like "Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and will never compete with fiat". But those are to be expected regardless of what Bitcoin is doing and where the price is, and they're in the far minority of the news reports of late.
What does this tell us? Well, it seems that despite the recent crash, the media generally recognizes that Bitcoin is far from dead, that it just has some growing pains to go through, and that it's still a potentially revolutionary piece of technology.
Times will be interesting indeed...