I think that what you wrote made a lot of sense. However, consider this, suppose you typed a catchier post title? I ain't suggesting your content isn't good, but suppose you added a post title to possibly get folk's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda vanilla. You might look at Yahoo's front page and note how they write article headlines to get people to open the links. You might try adding a video or a pic or two to grab people excited about everything've got to say. Just my opinion, it could bring your website a little livelier.