I’ve got to be honest with you: I’m guessing here. What makes me feel better is that I’m not alone. Everybody is guessing at how to best use all these web thingamawhatzies they call “2.0.”

But instead of wonder, we’re going to treat this like free throw shooting and zone defenses: we’re going to try things, lots of them, until we find what works. The only way to solve something is to, in the words of coaches, “get after it.”

Here’s what we’re doing: blogging along as we always have, interspersing commentary and news, stats and analysis. The difference? Look over to that right hand column. Both of them. We’re aggregating the tweets of our CAA brethren, be it media or schools, coaches or players.

You see, one of the wonderful discoveries we’ve made is that the newspaper isn’t the center of information distribution anymore. News comes from everywhere–newspaper beat writers, the schools, the conference, the players and the coaches. It also comes from me.

What we’re doing is putting the information at the center of of universe and attempting to organize around it.

Brian Mull is going to break UNCW information and provide very good analysis on what he sees. So we’re going to let him do that here. Ditto Jerry Beach and Hofstra. Ditto James Madison University. The goal is that you will come here for two reasons: (1) get your CAA info; (2) to go somewhere else to get your CAA info.

The point, and I always have a point: we’re the home of CAA basketball here, whether it’s here or there. I may not have the info you need, but you can bet your bippy if I don’t I’ll tell you where to go to get it.

Kyle Whelliston once called the two types of college basketball fans poets and geeks. He’s correct, but I believe both exist inside of us. Our minds are the geeks–it desires logic and the specificity of field goal percentage defense. Our hearts are the poets, rhapsodizing the heat of the DAC and the frigidity of Mathews; the intensity of ODU/VCU.

This approach frees me to be a smidgen more poetic, allowing the experts to offer the breaking news and statistical nuggets. I like the way that sets up: you get your brain food and storytelling, and all I have to do is play the role of information conductor.

Here’s the BIG HOPE: it gets very interesting on game days. I’ve asked and received permission to have a select number of official scribes tweet for us from the games they are covering.

The best analogy I can muster is the sports radio segment where they “go around the league for updates” and cut to reporters live at the scene of each game, giving an instant update from that venue. That’s what we’re doing here, only it is twitter and this blog.

One more add: you can participate, too. Hashtag #caahoops (hopefully from the venue) and tell us all what you see. In fact, you can do that now, I guess.

It’s all part of figuring out the whole shooting match. But that’s my job.

Yours: go enjoy CAA basketball. Just be sure to tell me what you see.