Of course, my blog suffers from many of these mistakes and I see good reason behind Jakob’s points. Having an about page, a photo, or writing about a specific topic will certainly be welcomed by the readers. Some of the mistakes are classic web design mistakes – non descrtiptive titles or non action links.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html
And yes, I will work on correcting these mistakes soon 🙂