Beesource.com

摘要

Last month I discussed several examples of apicultural dot-coms that have recently been proliferating on the World Wide Web. As the information revolution matures, there are sure to be many more. Thdy will be limited only be the creativity of those who see the enormous possibilities presented by this new technology. Mr.Barry Birkey is one of a team of web designers outside Chicago involved in a host of projects involving multimedia and World Wide Web pages. He is also a beekeeper and launched a site early on with an apicultural focus. Here are some musings he sent me by email late last year:"I'm just starting to implement a lot of new changes to my current web site that have been on the back burner for a couple of years. The most recent action was to acquire two new domains to begin building my new site around(beesource.com and beel.com). I then plan to develop some new features. One is to make Bee-1.com the browser based method for bee-1. I'll be implementing a discussion board with an array of forums moderated by individuals who have expertise in these areas. Different forums mihht be, beginning beekeeping, diseases and pests, pollination, queen production, products of the hive, etc. My goal is to not take away from bee-1 but to be an added value especialy in light of the many posts we moderators receive that don't fit the guidelines due to their elementary nature or redundancy. They might do better looking at a specific forum of interest. My other goal is to create a network of honey producers(mostly hobby) that would be willing to sell their honey or fulfill orders online. When you think about it, most"homegrown" honey is sold locally and never goes beyond that. I'd like to see a way for people wanting specialty honeys to be able to buy it over the internet.