More about Bubbling and Context

Here's an interesting bubble: "seahawks"

Now I don't know anything about American Football and who's hot right now, cause I don't follow sports in general, but using the BubbleSphere, I can find out a lot of information really quickly about who the Seahawks are as a team, who are their top newsworthy players, and more information that I can grab from looking at just one page with 30 images on it.

Some quick observations from the first page:

• First thing I notice is their logo... the bluish and greenish eagle head
• The first bubble from the center says "seattle" and has their logo again... this is information that will always be associated with seahawks because most places mention the city along with the name of the team
• The second bubble says "Matt Hasselbeck" who I'm assuming is their quarter-back since the next bubble after that is "quarterback".
• Looking at the feeds using "seahawks" most, I see that NewsBubbles is actually pulling from four different sections of the seattle times, who mention the seahawks the most... the front page, the seahawks section, the sports section, and the local section, which, in the last 45 days from Nov 26th, 2008, happened to mention them in 34 articles.

There is obviously way more to see on the first page, but for the sake of the fact that you have to read this article, I'll keep it to that... some other things there were: Jim Zorn, Deion Branch, Seneca Wallace, Washington, Cardinals, Sunday, Victory, and some other things like tuesday, night, play, game, etc... if I drilled-down on these, I would find out more contextual information about them, but I just want to know who this "Mike Holmgren" guy is, cause I saw him pretty close to the top of the list.

• I double-click "mike holmgren"... When you double-click something in the bubble spiral, you add it to what's in the middle, or the focus, thus drilling down on it.
• Looking at the "seahawks mike holmgren" bubble, the first bubble next to that is "coach", so I'm assuming that he's their coach. In this spiral, I also notice that it's his final season, one bubble says.

I could take these bubbles back into time as well, but this is just one example of how I can get a lot of information and very current information about what's going on with whatever I'm bubbling, within seconds. Things I would have to read and scan the entire wiki page of the seahawks, or google to figure out, much less just buy a recent book about them... but I'm not in to sports all that much. However, if I wanted to have a conversation where I look like I know what I'm talking about, I could sit on NewsBubbles for 10 minutes or so and get all of the latest players, happenings, events, trades, game results, etc., on the seahawks.

The pictures really help and a lot of the times are in the context of what I'm looking at, and the words associated with them.