I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
Got this nice note from Alyssa (you may remember I gave her a tour of my hives and pointed her in the right direction for starting her own): who knew larvae could be so thrilling! …
Both hives are doing well, if their voraciousness is anything to go by. They’ve sucked down a gallon or so of sugary water each (1 part sugar, one part water, heat to dissolve the water, …
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 …
