First, I believe the sample is very accurate because of its size and because the replies to the last 100 were statistically approximate to the first 100, and throughout.

I was shocked to find that 25 pct of you learned about my site in Barron's and Forbes, and only 20 pct came from word-of-mouth, while 42 pct came from Internet referrals from other blogs. Less than 13 pct came via Internet search.

As for connection speed, 94.4 pct are using hi-speed and 5.6 pct are slow-speed. Wow, the Week In Review must take a day to download in slow-speed! :-)

Reader location figures are bang-on the server logs, and show that 71.7 pct are from the U.S., 17.9 pct from Canada, and 10.4 pct from other countries. That's consistent with the referral source data, and the fact I am Canadian.

For net worth, there were 22.5 pct saying that, excluding residence, they have a net worth under US$100,000, while 39 pct are between $100,000 and $500,000, and 38.5 pct over $500,000. This is a fairly well-to-do and very well-educated readership although I try to write it so that nobody is excluded.

Without my offering a value proposition, the question regarding willingness to spend on related services was really unfair, but there were just 23.2 pct of you who indicated that you would use only free services on the Internet. Of those who would pay for some kind of service, 3 pct would pay over $1,000/year, while the mean average would likely be close to $250/year.

The site usability question, which was poorly worded, resulted in at least 75 pct of you who really like it, and less than 25 pct who replied it is "somewhat useful". When I looked closer at the data, I found very few true negatives.

The most requested change was to make the navigation (info access) simpler, which is something I have long intended to do.

In total, there were almost 50 pct of you who added comments and recommendations for change. I have put these into a single file for sending to TeamCara volunteers to have them work the list into specifications for the webmaster to use. My goal is to have the changes made for Sept 1st and then to do a follow-up survey at the end of Sept.

Another change that I'm sure will come out of this in the free blog will be a question and answer format (requested by 89 pct of respondents) where I will have myself and a team of experts answering.

I was surprised that about 75 pct of you wanted e-mail alerts, and so I will set up a system for that as well, once I understand what info you want to be alerted to.

About 80 pct of you wanted customizable stock tables and 72 pct wanted customizable charts and graphs, but that is something that must be done outside the blog and inside a separate premium data service. But it is very doable and ought to be inexpensive to offer.

As to the difference between this free blog and a separate premium data/intelligence service, I can say now that I started a couple weeks ago on the premium site, which, if it works out, will be managed on a different server by a different host. I want to keep the free blog clear of commercials and classes of users. I intend to make the free stuff as good as I can, which means more daily articles and better organization.

Although it was only in February this year " 22 months after I started to blog " that I decided to come out of retirement and offer professional and premium data services " you ought to know I am not driven by any consideration to do this quickly. I just want to do it right. These ventures have a habit of taking on a life of their own, and I am pleased to say that the only treadmill I get on is the physical unit that sits about four feet from my desk.

Thank you so much for contributing to this survey, and to the other bloggers and financial media who have made so many people aware of my blog, I am going to thank you too and reach out to you for ways that we can co-operate in the future.

And to the TeamCara participants I have selected for this task, I'll have the Reader Recommendations file out to you this evening.