The First, and Last, Reader Poll on the CTFC: Bubble-Boy vs. The Collective
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Saturday, 21 March 2009 02:13
So...I have found myself reconsidering Operation Bubble Boy. That's due mainly to a single feature I used to do for Center Holds It: collective power rankings.

For those unfamiliar, here's a taste of what those once looked like (though only in the incarnation as I knew it, as opposed to what happened when Breton Bonnette took over...and ably).

I've been thinking a lot about the collective rankings since pulling the plug on reading online soccer news (though I cheated tonight to see what other BigSoccer bloggers were doing) and, yeah, I have to admit I miss the concept.

I can't think of a better way to capture the Major League Soccer (MLS) zeitgeist. Obviously, though, that requires reading other people's stuff...which runs contrary to the entire Bubble-Boy concept.

Before turning this over for a floor vote—and that assumes one happens—I want to elaborate on why I like the whole Bubble-Boy concept. Call it revolt against the New Media Age, the obsession with total information.

Why, when I was a lad, one couldn't do much more than follow the local club and look to the standings for everything else. Bulls**t, you say?

Well, yes, partially, but the point stands: you can sink as deeply into the info-swamp as you like in this Brave New World, but it's hard to make the case that all the information actually makes you smarter; it's more accurate to say you only have more information—it's what you do with it that counts.

OK. Tme for the floor vote. And if this ends 1-0 - e.g. if just one person says "collective rankings"—I'm doing what that one vote dictates. Speaking for myself, I don't care one way or the other; I like them both.

More significantly, though, I'm counting the votes in one place and only one place: the comments field.

In other words, if your vote doesn't go into the comments to this post—and only this post—it doesn't get counted. Voting closes at midnight on March 28. And, finally, here are the options for the Carey Talley Fan Club for the 2009 season:

1) I do the Collective Power Rankings, which means I reconnect to the world at large...and, by inevitable, translation, follow its whims.

2) I stick with Operation Bubble-Boy, a kind of performance-art approach to following soccer, that requires me to shun all online soccer media and report from a space separate from the normal world.

Vote how you like—e.g. either type "No. 1" or "No. 2" down below—or just tell me what you'd like to read most and elaborate to your liking (e.g. "both ideas are stupid, why did I click on this link"). Right. Thanks...and talk to you in two weeks.

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