I can see the trend of file sharing size as the internet speed also increase. I'm pretty sure that it will still evolve as the internet gets more faster.
I have studied Marine Transportation for 4 years worked as a seaman for 7 years and still end up as an animator. I feel the same way applying to a job with a competition that have the papers/diploma with them.
"There is nothing wrong is accepting poor performance. All what matters is you keep running the race"
I could not say it any better. Cut the losses and keep on moving. Happened to me when I made a very bad call which made me loss a lot of money. I was thinking of closing down when my wife told me that closing down will throw everything I had worked hard. After a year I had made up from my mistake and now is doing better.
Getting traffic is not an easy thing. My website (now) gets around 1000-2000 visitors a day. I started posting it on facebook, and other social sites but this is limited to my friends and family. Then I tried to post it on Reddit and Digg but had the same as yours (traffic spikes). My break through happened when I posted A video on youtube it had around 700k hits on youtube this gave me a steady daily visitors. Also, as your blog content gets bigger and bigger, it will have more chances to get organic hits. Hope this one helped and good luck.
If there would be a way that email providers would resend my emails to my FB account, that would be nice. Currently I'm staying with my old email since most of my contacts are there.
For me its like this, FB mail for family and friends and email for business.
Looks neat to me good work on the bold words, I like the background image that gives it a feel of using a paper. Navigation on the left is useless tho.