I believe what you posted was actually very reasonable. However, what about this? what if you added a little content? I am not suggesting your information is not solid., but what if you added a title to possibly get people's attention? I mean %BLOG_TITLE% is kinda plain. You might glance at Yahoo's front page and see how they create news headlines to get viewers to click. You might add a related video or a related picture or two to grab people excited about everything've got to say. In my opinion, it could make your posts a little livelier.