Want more than the latest posts, but not ready to explore the BeeLog on your own? Start with some of these favorites spanning BzzAgent’s entire existence. Just as with the BeeLog as a whole, you’ll find a bit of everything: unheard of transparency, pearls of wisdom, abject failure, etc. Time to start digging!

The Early Years

The office: tiny and dingy. The Agent population community: 50,000.

• Inside BzzAgent
  “It started with ants. The idea that colonies of ants work as one integrated community, laying trails of pheremones to direct each individual’s actions…” Read More
  November 10th, 2003
• Letting Others Know About the Beelog
  “So, we finally told everyone in the company about the BeeLog today. From now on, anyone who works at BzzAgent will be able to post…” Read More
  December 3rd, 2003
• Driving Minivans on the Moon…and Antartica
  “Television ads have raided my collection (the one in my mind, the one on my shelf) for songs! Trying to relate to me by stealing from the magnificent soundtrack of my life…” Read More
  September 23rd, 2004
• Are We Really Evil?
  “Here in Com Dev we read a lot of BzzReports. After a long day of replying to these reports, they sometimes seem to blend together…” Read More
  December 6th, 2004
• Home Café
  “Hi, BzzAgents. For anyone in the Home Cafe BzzCampaign, I’d like to share my thoughts about the product and campaign…” Read More
  December 27th, 2004

The NY Times Era

The office: bigger and cleaner. The Agent community: 115,000.

• Our Next Management Hire [A Bizarre Gardening Accident]
  “Anyone remember the joke in Spinal Tap about the band’s inability to find and keep the right drummer?…” Read More
  February 20th, 2005
• An Open Letter to Lawrence Lessig & And The First Rule of BzzAgent Is…
  “Lawrence is requesting feedback on our campaign with Creative Commons. I’ve posted this as a response, but wanted to ensure everyone could see this…” Read More
  May 2005
• Post a Blog and Leave Early
  “We’ve been waiting for over 3 years for Matt Fletcher, our Controller, to post to the BeeLog…” Read More
  November 11th, 2005
• Where Are We Anyway?
  “After two years of watching the population of BzzAgents swell from 7,000 to nearly 120,000 (no that’s not a typo) without a stitch of marketing…” Read More
  November 20th, 2005
• Over or Under? I’d Settle for Anything at All
  “Dear whoever designed and manufactured the archaic toilet paper holders that haunt the bathrooms of the Central Hive:…” Read More
  December 12th, 2005

Transitions

The office: cramped, again. The Agent community: 200,000.

• Do Not Spray Lysol in a Dog’s Eye [Please]
  “The occasional joys of finding BzzReports in our system that show signs of a very active imagination…or a very, very dark side…” Read More
  January 26th, 2006
• Observations from a Rookie
  “So I’m (relatively) new here at BzzAgent, and thought I’d use my fresh perspective (not to mention this fancy new blog) as an excuse…” Read More
  April 5th, 2006
• Meet my Cousin JimO
  “Ok, time for a little role-playing. And no I’m not going to break out my eight-sided die and get all Dungeons and Dragons on you….” Read More
  June 20th, 2006
• Funny Human Tricks
  “Ben, one of the Analytics team members, can’t resist a dare. For the right price….” Read More
  July 5th, 2006
• Think of it like a Net Promoter Score for Being Awesome
  “So some of us Hivesters spent the day on the water this past weekend, wakeboarding off the coast of Newport…” Read More
  July 7th, 2006

The New Bubble

The office: airy yet bustling. The Agent community: 300,000.

• You Call That a Mustache? & Lip Buddy Awards
  “Big excitement today in the Hive. Later today the judging of the First Annual BzzAgent Mustache contest will commence…” Read More
  June 2007
• Dance, Jono, Dance
  “You know how we always talk about transparency here at BzzAgent? Well I figured I’d take it to a new level…” Read More
  July 30th, 2007
• Charlie’s Last Words
  “With less than an hour left to go before my eight-week summer internship at BzzAgent is officially over…” Read More
  August 10th, 2007
• Stop Chewing Ice, You Know Who
  “Recently we asked the company to respond anonymously to some questions…” Read More
  October 5th, 2007
• Campaign Quality
  “With the right people and the right process, word-of-mouth programs can be tremendously fun to sell…” Read More
  October 13th, 2007