This was in my feedreader this morning and I thought it might benefit some of those on this forum who are new to WordPress. WP veterans may not take much away from this, but it's worth posting...
One thing they don't specifically mention (which I can't understate the importance of) is to get yourself a good plugin to combat comment spam. I have a blog which I haven't updated in over a year and it still gets 10-20 spam comments a day because I didn't install proper comment spam protection.