Greetings fellow earthlings,

I know I haven’t been around much, what with travel, the holidays, and now a sinus infection that’s got me scrambled, but I have an idea.

In the last month or two, I’ve found myself addicted to Facebook (gee, thanks sis ), meaning I forget about everything else and end up over there dribbling away and playing the terribly addictive “games”.

I wouldn’t call them games so much as distractions really, because for the most part they’re no-brainers.

THEN, the programmer in me kicks in and I begin to consider the fact that — to the best of my wanderings — no one has created an Open source version of Facebook/MySpace/etc in CMS fashion.

I’m not talking about cloning Facebook or the others. That would be illegal of course, but building a Content Management System (CMS) engine that has the same appeal and “I’m an individual part of a community” drive as those other more famous sites, then make it available for anyone to run a site on, ala PHPNuke, Xoops, and the other similar CMS engines.

Toss in personal blogging for the members like we do here, and I really think the potential is there to change the world, or at least the face of the Web.

To that end, I believe I may not be posting too much in the near future until I can jot down my ideas and move forward in a way that makes sense for me. Heck, if anyone’s smart enough (or more enthusiastic enough) to beat me to the punch, I’m ALL for it, as it’s less for me to do..