Just a quick note to let you know that we changed two things with the site last week. The first, as I'm sure you've seen, added a Hot Topics section to the blog home page. This will now show you the most popular topics in the last 24 hours. The second feature we launched will remove comment contributions by the blog's author when calculating popular posts. So a blogger can't comment a whole bunch of times on his own post to get ranked in the popular posts list on the front page. More coming soon! Kareem