I believe everything said made a bunch of sense. But, think on this, what if you were to write a awesome headline? I mean, I don't wish to tell you how to run your blog, but what if you added a title to maybe get folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is a little plain. You ought to look at Yahoo's home page and see how they create post headlines to grab viewers to open the links. You might add a video or a picture or two to grab people excited about everything've got to say. Just my opinion, it would bring your blog a little bit more interesting.