April 2007

National Geographic is always good for crazy bee videos, and this one is no exception.  Bee venom is apparently an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis and arthritis and is being used aggressively that way in Taiwan.  …

I found these beautiful pictures from the Prokopovych Beekeeping Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine.  Each of the photos below are actual functional bee hives.  The entrance to the hive on the left, for example, is through …

Hillel over at Jackson Fish Market has informed me that the focus of this blog is unclear: is it about beekeeping or social technology?  He’s right, of course.  He also informed me that my blog …

I’m just tickled that my recent article on the hive mind has garnered some attention on Digg.  As a quick follow-up, I’ll  say that my talk on beekeeping and the hive mind at the Web 2.0 …

Disturbing news from Gizmodo: Colony Collapse Disorder, previously covered here, may be caused by…cell phones!  This bodes poorly for the talk I plan to give later this week at the Web 2.0 Expo on Building an …

I’m often asked what Hive Mind means, and why I chose it as my domain. On Sunday, I’ll be giving a short talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo on Beekeeping and the Hive Mind. Here’s …

I’m back up to two hives! For now… April 11th was the big day, the folks at Beez Neez drove down to California, picked up a truckload of bees (please, please drive carefully!) and brought …

I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow night at Ignite Seattle, where a bunch of geeks get up and give five minute talks on some topic. The twist is that you get 5 minutes exactly to …