Can you dig it?

Why didn’t I learn about this in graduate school?

Ok, fine. Perhaps that question could be expanded into an entire blog on its own, but let’s get to the gist of my current train of thought.  Do you know what BricaBox is?  I didn’t either, until I spent some time browsing Nate Westheimer’s blog.  To my best basic understanding, BricaBox allows anyone with an ounce of online savvy to create their own social content application and customize it to his own creative specifications.  I can create my own wiki, my own version of Yelp that includes only places that serve cheese plates, hell even my own guide to the best stores in DC to buy very tight jeans.  In short, I can take the brilliant interactive concept that someone else has already come up with, started and distributed to the masses, and make it my own in my own virtual universe!  Brilliant!

But wait.  In my own moment of Web-angst (which happens alot when I find out about things too late), I have just discovered that ye olde web-ster extraordinaire Westheimer plans to shut down BricaBox!  In a blog post dated June 19th, 2008, Westheimer gives a laundry list of well-explained, yet all-the-while disheartening reasons why BricaBox has not worked out as he had hoped.  As of this post, the site is still in working order, but for how long??  Nate! Do I have time to craft my wiki of all things early to late 90’s alternative rock?  What about my vision for a labored, yet beloved list of the best waffle cones on the Eastern Seaboard?  So many ideas, Nate, so little time, as the BricaBox time bomb ticks away.  If only I had known sooner…