#2 isn't true either. Wordpress is the slowest piece of software I've ever seen. You NEED the wp-super-cache plugin to make it able to sustain some traffic.

This is very basic stuff, really. Any blogger would have told you these things, and #1 isn't even true (i.e. sethgodin.typepad.com).

No great insight revealed.

#14 is more important than all of the rest put together times 5, at least from the readership numbers standpoint.

Thanks, great tips.