As you might or might not have noticed, last weekend I upgraded to newtelligence DasBlog 1.9.7174.0 nightly build, and modified my layout a little bit.
I have also installed the Extra and jforsythe macro plug ins.

Some advantages :

• Gravatar support (though it does not seem to work correctly yet)
• Automatic spam comment filtering with AKSIMET 
• Ability to track your comments with coComment
• Show recent comments
• Show related articles
• Allow paging in category view
• Show next and previous articles
• Track back anti-spam verification
• ... and much more

I have also made some modifications to the used templates/site layout.
The whole idea was to improve the usability/click through rate... Let us see if it helps..

Google ads are currently still disabled. This version of dasBlog also has a $w(Robots.txt)

For the dasBlog users: here are some of the macros used :

• <%RelatedPostList%> 
• <%PreviousLink("&laquo;&nbsp;",40)%>
  <%PreviousNextSeparator("|")%>
  <%NextLink("&nbsp;&raquo;",40)%>
• <%NavigatorLinksList()|extra%>
• <%RecentComments(5, 30, 20, 100, 12, true)

If you have any questions, just post them in the comment section.