…Google Buzz is certainly proving to be an interesting bee. It is Google’s social networking software that is built right into G-mail. This merging has been called Simple Genius and a Facebook killer (more on the killer stuff here). However, no sooner did buzz leave the hive that it was discovered to have serious privacy problems, serious vulnerability to hackers…these issues chronicled here, here, and here. My advice? Leave Google buzz until spring and read instead:
- Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply by Bill McKibbon
- Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism by Jurgen Tautz
- A Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and Home by Allison Wallace
- Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop