Andrew that article looks like it's been written by someone who has never seen either a blog or a forum. It's a subjective classification based on second hand information, that mostly appears to be incorrect.

IMHO The blogs were working fine - no need to fix what isn't broken.

Additionally...

1 - Moving focus from the blogs to the forums is not going to improve the forums
2 - Removing the blog index is just going to kill the blogs - you have nearly 438000 members, do you honestly expect see more people to trawl though profiles to find something interesting to read?
3 - You mentioned that you want to retain info in the forums that's otherwise lost in the blogs - LOL - most forum articles only have a life of 10 posts (the number of posts on the spy). And all are dead after 50 as that's the limit of your search results.
4 - Why are you messing around with unity when you have bugs to fix?

PRIORITIZE....

/DM