I believe everything said was very reasonable. But, think on this, suppose you added a little content? I mean, I don't want to tell you how to run your website, however suppose you added a title that grabbed folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda boring. You ought to look at Yahoo's home page and see how they create post headlines to get viewers to open the links. You might try adding a video or a picture or two to get people excited about everything've got to say. Just my opinion, it would bring your blog a little livelier.