I take a look at your blog and website.
Wow, you have an impressive credential, featured in CrunchBase, have a consulting company. A veteran, I must say. I feel humbled trying to answer this question of yours.

Some opinions:
1. I would suggest you start to a new blog (if your traffic is not many now) and copy those that are reusable over there. A blog that is not consistent or frequently abandoned may turn off the readers.
Set up the blog for SEO when it is new:
some insights are available from @smartweb’s answer (SEO guru here) in this question.

If start to a new blog is not an option, try to “restart” with a blogpost assuring the world that you are “relaunching” your blog and will update consistently, the theme etc.

2. Put AddThis into your blog:
AddThis’s website
http://www.addthis.com/services
There are 200+ channels that can be used as marketing channels.
It eases peoples who want to share out your blogposts.
You may also open accounts in these channels to promote your blog.

3. Utilize your twitter
Your Twitter has 1203 followers. Inform them you are relaunching your blog.
You can use Twitterfeed or tools in Google Feedburner that automates sending tweet of new blogpost to Twitter.

4.Utilize all your other accounts: LinkedIn, Flickr, Backtype, Slideshare
Mention your blog in the post or refer to your blog for relevant info.
You can also mention in your blog your other works in Flickr, Slideshare.
You will then have more things to share without much extra effort.
You may put your schedule about your talks, presentation/video/material into your blog (if allowed) or mention your blog during presentation/talk for more updates on the topics.

A good example will be to embed your "2010: A service provider odyssey" into your blog.
(I must say your presentation is about "cutting edge" technology). That will pull crowd. Put all your talks presentation on.

5. List your credentials/honours like in your LinkedIn
I as a reader will want to read blogposts/ideas from person with such a credential.

6. When you are free, write many back-up posts. When you are not free, use “letter me later” to schedule your post.
“letter me later” website:
http://www.lettermelater.com/
In this way, even if you are with busy schedule, you will still have consistent posts.

7. Comments on other high traffic websites on tech or issue
Occasionally mentioned your experience/credentials.

8. Use Google Webmaster Tools to monitor your PageRank, backlinks, errors etc.
Google Webmaster Tools.

9.Think again on the layout, the theme,categories
You may wish to put into different relevant categories.
Put sponsors that are related to the theme.

10. I would suggest you don’t say “Welcome to Friday Fudge #n of hopefully many to come”
This may give an impression that the blog is going to be abandoned.

I think you have all the answers yourself, just whether you really want to do it or not :-)

This site appears to be a mix of contributions, personal and professional. It is, in terms of the Internet, quite an elderly blog (as you say, established 13 years ago). But blogs aren't like fine wine or collectible art forms, they are information, and out of date information not only has less value than current, clearly labeled information, it can be an impediment to easily navigating your site.

The question of maintaining an old blog for archival purposes is one for librarians and archivists to answer, but personally, I don't think it is of any benefit to you to keep the really old portions of it (it isn't available in a saved form via archive.org at http://web.archive.org/*?http://fudge.org because you blocked access via robots.txt. See http://web.archive.org/web/20080528135110/fudge.org/robots.txt). I would suggest using a program like Adobe Acrobat (or one of the free PDF makers) and save as PDF files what you feel are the most significant pages as individual files, and park them offline or in a place so visitors who visit can clearly understand they're visiting your archive.

Ask yourself these questions: If someone using a search engine lands on one of my old interior pages, as they exist now, will they discover what this site is about, and will they be able to navigate to the more current pages easily?

Are these pages out of date?

Does the site look the way I'd like it to?

There are a lot of design templates available for bloggers that not only let you set colors, images, and links, they help you organize your information. And an up-to-date blog with attractive colors or images is just like the color scheme in a restaurant or other business that wants to attract in users. Colors and design speak volumes. Black text on a white background is not as easy on the eyes.

I would suggest reworking your site, archiving the really old stuff, and using the newer social media to link back to your revised blog. For example, you might want to set up a couple of twitter accounts, one for a business name, one for personal use, and link back to different portions of your blog. This would allow followers to tap into the portion that interests them the most, but to connect with and explore your other materials at their leisure.

There is a site owned by Amazon that tracks Internet usage and statistics, called Alexa.
This is what they have for your site: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fudge.org#trafficstats

You can update your site data using Alexa self-service tools:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fudge.org#trafficstats

Finally, along with the various ways to plant links in Google and Yahoo, simply making contact via various top sites will drive traffic to your pages. See Alexa's list of the top 100 sites in the U.S.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US

Nearly 1/3 of your traffic is from outside the U.S., but I can't track down where it is coming from. If you click on that 29% reading at Alexa, it will take you to a list of top web sites in many countries. You might want to dabble in some external sites if the overseas traffic interests you. If you set up feedback so that users must log on with at least an email to post to your site, you'll be able to see where some of these users are from.

Good luck! It's a lot of work to update a blog, but just as when you remodel an important space like your home or office, you're bound to enjoy using the space more and liable to visit more often and keep it up to date more easily.

submit your articles:
http://digg.com/
http://www.wikio.com/
and other digg like

make sure it is listed on DMOZ and Yahoo Directory.. make sure it is submitted to Google and Bing.. install Google Analytics ....

You are asking about more readers. You can improve the readership in the following ways:

1. You may share the page in google reader first.
2. Then split the content of your website to many small small 350-450-word articles.
3. Put those articles in either Hubpages or Ezine articles etc., So more readers will jump into your webpage indirectly from the link you have provided in each article.
4. You may create one free blogger blog and may put some review pages about your website and attract more readers from there.
5. Join feedburner account and get more email subscribers to read your pages through the blog you created about your website.
6. You may comment other websites and blogs to create more back links to your website.
8. Get a twitter account and invite your twitter followers to read your website.
7. You may also join paid services too.

In the above ways you can surely improve the readership of your website.

All good answers above but redundant and plain vanilla. There is another way: I just got back from an Internet Marketers' Cruise. 422 marketers hanging out having fun. In the two group sessions, it was painfully obvious that video is the new wave to garner traffic. You don't have to be in front of the camera unless you want to be, but you can use powerpoint and camtasia to make nice videos with pertinent information. Once you have your video in hand submit to 50 Video directories and use the labels and anchor tags to lead back to your blog. Of course you post the YouTube version right on your blog. Have fun with it!

Increasing meaningful and consistent readership usually means that you'll have to appeal to the audience. For one thing, as others have said you'll want to have consistent updates. The less there is in terms of consistent updates, the less likely your audience is to return consistently. So if you're looking to increase the audience, you're going to want to set down a schedule that you would be able to stick to.

Next, sometimes just having writing won't always grab people's attention unless you're an incredible writer. So either try to be short and straight to the point or have other media put into your updates that would illustrate points you're trying to make. The more diverse the types of materials given whether it is in text, audio, picture or video, the more people would really pay attention.

Another thing that you'd want to do is shamelessly self-promote once you've started getting to doing consistent updates. So get a digg account, make a facebook and myspace page. Anything that would that helpful for promotion, make an account and use it. Also have your help promote your work. The more things and people making a buzz for a consistently updated blog, the more people will really get interested.

to attract readers to the web site you have to add meaningful and valuable information to your site then only you can build a strong relationship.

To increase meaningful readership to a site old enough to get a driver's permit you should build a website on it that allows people to read it.

Seriously, what kind of question is this? Are you asking for tips to take advantage of the age of your domain? There are none. People say that Google will rank you higher if you're an old domain, but does it really? What does it matter if it does anyway? Do you think Linkedin and Twitter care about how old their domain is?

If you want to increase readership to your current blog, the first thing you want to do is make it easier to read. Right now it looks terrible. Someone has told you that "minimal is best" and you've taken it to the extreme. It looks like you've grabbed a piece of paper and written paragraphs in different spots of the page.

Adapt a Thesis theme which separates the side column from the main column.

Differentiate between the featured article and the archived articles below.

Remove the tags and put something useful in it's place.

Remove the sponsors section because it makes no sense and makes you think "What on earth is this website about???"

Start writing useful content that a person with a certain interest would be interested in writing and join some communities where this person hangs out so you can advertise your blog to them.

Add some sharing buttons by adding the sociable plugin or the add to any plugin.

Create some integrity and consistence within your topic so that people know what your site is about and what it's not about.

I would say continue to create meaningful content as it looks you are, but update more often. Most readers enjoy getting regular content from sites they love. Give them a reason to love your site.

What do you want to be? Do you want to be a site that serves up the best links every day? Invest heavily in that. Go out and find the ten best link blogs and curate the best ones on your site. If you want to write editorial content, make an outline at the beginning of the week of five articles that you want to write. Think ahead and start writing each of these articles ahead of time and polish them to perfection before posting.

Talk to people who follow you and ask them about what they want to see in your site. Engage the people who comment on your article in conversations. What do they like about your site? What do they not like about your site?

The most important thing to remember is to keep your readers happy and interested. Be personal and be available to talk.

Hope this helps!