What you said was actually very reasonable. However, think about this, suppose you added a little information? I am not suggesting your information is not solid, but suppose you added something that grabbed a person's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda vanilla. You ought to peek at Yahoo's home page and see how they create article titles to get viewers to open the links. You might add a related video or a related pic or two to get people interested about what you've got to say. Just my opinion, it could make your posts a little livelier.