I think that everything posted was very reasonable. However, what about this? suppose you composed a catchier post title? I mean, I don't wish to tell you how to run your blog, but suppose you added a title that grabbed folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little plain. You could look at Yahoo's front page and see how they create article titles to get people to open the links. You might add a video or a pic or two to grab readers excited about everything've written. Just my opinion, it might bring your website a little bit more interesting.