Muted Colors is meant to be easy on the eyes so on so forth and etcetera. The many widgeted areas leave a great opportunity for diversification of widgets.
Paid Posting
This bottom area is ideal for using an RSS feed widget to port category feeds to keep your home page from backing up as you keep a paid post links on the front page for the requisite number of days.
Using and RSS Widget
The Wordpress RSS Widget is one of the most useful and least used widgets. You can import any feed either from your own blog or any other.