That gives me a high site index (each page gets “crawled” and then indexed by the search engines for future searches).    A few months ago, when I checked my rank on Website Grader, my rank was 81.  The only thing I started to do differently was be more diligent in adding tags to each post.  Everything else still lies with content.

If you have a website and want to see how yours ranks, just head over to www.website.grader.com, a free SEO analytical service, and type in your url.  You’ll be amazed to see what actually gets searched to give you your grade.   I like to compare my rankings to those of Dosh-Dosh (www.dosh-dosh.com), an incredible blog about internet marketing, written by a mid-twenties blogger.  He’s tops of the tops (99.7 on Grader and Page Rank of 6 on Google) with over 10,000 subscribers.  When I see what he does, I am always humbled and I realize how much more I could be doing. 

Still, 94 isn’t a grade to take lightly.  I’m pretty pleased for today.  Gonna have a coffee now, and give myself a virtual pat on the back.   Or eat a scone.

So this post, in micro-blog form would be something like this: 

“Twitter, becomes stealth media. Federal gang trial attention skyrocketing. Brings public into the courtroom. Judge applauded by Tweeters.”

The reporter, Ron Sylvester, has been covering state trials using Twitter, but this is the first federal trial to allow live Tweeting during the trial.  If it were televised, we could all watch it — but by him being “at the scene” and tweeting in the moment, we get perspective and opinion that you would never get from an overview report, or blog post at the end of the day.

Lawyers are BESIDE themselves with worry over tainting the jury, but the judge accepts Twitter as part of media.  As a matter of fact, blogging is already considered in the general umbrella of media and Twitter is definitely part of that.  What I like is that ground-breaking news can reach the world in 140 characters and click.  What is the latest in the Senate?  Head over to Twitter and search the latest bill you want to hear about.  What is the latest gossip on Chris Brown (that slug)?  Head over to Twitter and type in “Rihana beating”.  Want to hear about AIG becoming a penny stock?  Ditto.  And you aren’t just hearing from any old anyone. You will hear from the decision-makers, now using Twitter to keep their constituents, clients, and public informed.  Latest rumors?  check.  GM deal with the Feds?  Check.  Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?  Someone will want to talk.  Just wait.  It has only just begun.  Stealth media.  You heard it here, first. 

It took me awhile to warm up to this rather unusual way of connecting with like-minded, or not-like minded tweeters and a social networking genius friend of mine keeps pointing me in the direction of staying with it!  When I was at the car show in Detroit earlier this year, it was really exciting tweeting at the launches as news broke. Standing in the media hordes, I can’t tell you how many conversations I had with other media about out Blackberrys, iPhones, etc….but I digress.

This past week, I became a bit enamored of the viral rumor…very fast-breaking trend news on innovative new products, new marketing strategies, on medical findings, on anything and everything Obama and economy.  And in the midst of this, I started noticing real pops of innovation.  The market is so tough right now, that anyone who wants to make it through with their businesses intact must become insanely creative with meaningful innovation. 

So I’m now on the prowl.  Next week, I’ll be hosting our Blogging Boomers Carnival and intend to have an assortment of interesting and unusual websites and blogs for you to explore.  But for the rest of this week, I’m on the Twitter-hunt for innovation.

I’ve been getting emails from readers who are so disappointed the Obama hasn’t already “fixed” this crisis.  There are certainly problems with how our 2-party system in the US makes it very easy to become paralyzed and road-blocked.  But, this economic freefall isn’t even a question of how our federal government works — because the economic challenges are global.  The world financial leaders allowed this to happen by a serious lack of oversight combined with a Roman Empire style greed and love of excess.  So it is no surprise that the cards are not just tumbling, but rather cascading down. 

We are in absolutely in crisis and according to Obama, possibly heading into catastrophe.  It is dire.  We are all scared.  And we have to get cracking… as a people and not counting on government alone…to get innovative and find the ways to cauterize the bleeding.   The newly signed stimulus package is, to my mind, like half a cauterization.  The artery will stop projectile bleeding (so hopefully we, the patient, won’t bleed out in 4 minutes) but there is a gaping, seeping wound. 

I have the urget to go off ona tangent here (but there is a point, I promise):

A couple of years ago, I re-fractured my navicular bone (a small, but critical bone near the ankle) in my left foot.  I went to a highly recommended orthopedic surgeon, Clifford Kahn. I remember meeting him for the first time.  Very tall, attractive in an unusual way — with a very unorthodox full Z-Z-Top beard and cowboy boots peeking out from under the scrubs.  I’d never met a doctor who didn’t actually look like a doctor, but he was incredibly brilliant and incredibly kind and he was able to put me on the right path to fixing my teeny, tiny little injury.  That is not what this tangent is about.  It is about the other part of Dr. Kahn’s practice — that of wound healing and care.  He specialized in trauma to the foot and circulation to the feet tends to be poor as we age…resulting in very slow wound healing.  Part of wound healing, as I learned, requires taking off unhealthy flesh to the point of leaving only healthy flesh, so that the wound will bleed freshly and allow nature to heal the diseased area.  And often, it was necessary to work on the wound with no freezing so that the doctor would clearly know where diseased flesh ended and clean flesh began.  Imagine having a deep wound cleaned with no anaesthetic.  Yes, people scream in pain.  I heard it…not good for a gal with a weak stomach.  When I asked Dr. Kahn about that, he told me that the patients understand why the rot needs to be cut out and that they also understand why they need to communicate the pain.  So that they can ultimately and hopefully heal — without amputation.

I’m not a doctor, so perhaps I didn’t understand the explanation perfectly, but that is the image I carry around in my head regarding our economy.  Our government is trying to figure out what the extent of the rot is, what is salvagable and what needs to be amputated.  Obama is the new head doctor and he’s hearing the screams of the patients whose rot developed on another surgeon’s watch.  He took over the job, he wanted the job and now he’s got to get us out of the mess.

We are all realizing that is not going to be a short-lived crisis.  Speak to any older person, let’s say 70 years and older.  They will all tell you they see a struggle for the next 3-5 years until we can feel a bit of economic confidence.  I agree with them.   I also believe that our carbon-fuel economy will ultimately be replaced by renewable and alternative energy solutions.  But that also will take a ton of time and new infrastructure building.

We all know that housing is a disaster and will be the next big item on Obama’s plate.  Right next to the auto industry.  If you were watching the news yesterday, both Chrysler and GM had to present their viability plans.  It’s pretty bad.  A big restructure is in the cards for GM and Chrysler.  And a painful restructure this will be.  Here is a link to the GM press conference.  It will be available as of Wednesday at noon. You’ll have seen the sound bytes, but what CEO Rick Wagoner put forward in terms of the viability options is that GM projects it will cost much less to support the plans for restructure than to support a bankruptcy.  47,o0o employees will be terminated at GM and about 3,000 at Chrysler.   Additionally GM and Chrysler may need $22 Billion now and ultimately as much as $39 Billion over time to bail them out. 

I cannot see how we can let any of the Big 3 can go into bankruptcy.  Their effect on world economy is so huge that the ramifications of letting any of these companies fail are beyond imagination.  We need them to take the lead, on a global level, on renewable and alternative energy solutions, do it well and do it as quickly as they can.

Today we’ll hear the next pain solution as Obama lays out what he’s looking at regarding the housing market.  Crikeys.  Can’t wait.

The easiest comparison is to look at the difference between text messaging and emailing.  In an email, you can go on and on, with as much detail as you like.  Whoever you email, will read your note, at their leisure, and if they have something to say back, will email you.  Simple.

Text messaging is an abbreviated and very immediate form or electronic messaging.  You typically have about 160 characters to send a message.  Which means the more said with fewer characters, the better.  That’s why you’ll see acronyms for just about everything, such as: 

• LOL — Laugh Out Loud. 
• 2moro — tomorrow.
• Ty — thank you.
• BFF — best friends forever
• cu l8r — see you later

and on and on.  You can get very creative. 

So, now, at Twitter, blogging gets 140 characters.  That translates to about 2 sentences to grab someone’s attention.  And the more creative the better.  Instead of saying something like “Gave up the dessert.  Just gotta lose some weight.”, you might say “Decadent chocolate cheesecake almost passed lips.  But I’ve gotta get into size 10 by Friday…so just said NO to heaven.”

That description might cause someone else to take a second look and decide they needed to comment back to your micro-post or even head over to take a look at your blog.   Personally, I’m nosy and I just love peeping into other people’s lives…which Twitter lets me do so well.  There are even awards for best tweeters.  It is a bit odd, when you first head over, but you’ll find it a lot of fun once you figure out how to play!

Second on the technical side is the amazing interactive 3D photo of “The Moment” — the moment of the swearing in.  Attendees were encouraged to email in their pictures to CNN, from their perspective at the inaugural celebration.  The result is an astounding bit of online technology developed by Microsoft Live Labs, called “Photosynth”– a truly interactive, 360 degree, multi-dimensional, multi-moment , virtual collage.  When you first click on the picture, you think you are just zooming in, however, each “zoom” is another picture.  I was fascinated by the close-ups of the Obama’s — pictures grabbed several moments and you can see, expression-by-expression “the moment”, even seeing Ted Kennedy smiling behind Obama.  Apparently, many other photos will be added over the next few days, but even at this stage it is astounding.  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/