Have found the time (despite having many other things that ought to have been done) to throw out my old "Sticky Posts" sidebar box, and come back with the rockin' dynamic Freshtags "Highlights" post-title list. The sidebar now lists what I consider to be the 15 most critical Freshblog posts by default. Cool! More to come too, I think...
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One of the advantages of doing this is that you can add/remove posts in delicious in seconds, rather than hacking at your template and doing a re-publish. Have you given any thought to what circumstances might cause you to tweak your selection? Eg traffic/search query changes, "hot posts" on nearby blogs, backlinking etc
The downside is that, since these links are generated by a script, they are invisible to search engines. It might be nice to do a mini before/after study and find out if traffic (or search rankings) to your sticky posts drop after this.