Editors Desk: Thanksgiving photo caption contest
As our way of saying "Happy Thanksgiving" to all members of The Hive, we hereby present a write-your-own-photo-caption contest.To enter, you must be a registered member of The Hive and write your suggested caption in a reply to this AP photo of President Barack Obama sparing a turkey as part of an annual Thanksgiving ritual at the White House.I'll check The Bee's supply closet to find a pri

Editors Desk: Story comment maintenance scheduled for Sunday evening
Attention, Hive bloggers. The system that allows public comment on our stories and editorials on modbee.com will be undergoing some maintenance late Sunday night. There may be a few short stretches where commenting will be disabled. This work will not affect the Hive.Dan 

Editors Desk: System problems on modbee.com
Folks: I don't believe the Hive has been affected, but we've had some annoying problems throughout the McClatchy network today that have disrupted service on modbee.com and other sites. Our corporate techs are working diligently, restarting servers and such to put things right.UPDATE: All systems have been restored. If you experienced prolbems loggin in, we apologize. There was a power failure early in the morning that knocked out some corporate servers, and other servers encountered problems later on and were balky when our techs tried to restart them.Dan 

Editors Desk: Right on cue, the ignorant and intolerant respond
Friday afternoons in the newsroom are more complicated than other days because we're focused not only on the next day's paper, but the Sunday and Monday editions as well. I was talking late yesterday afternoon with one of the other senior editors, and we noted what we expected once today's lead story on the interview with a U.S. Navy veteran who is a Muslim was posted on modbee.com -- another outburst of intolerant and bigoted comments. The usual suspects have not failed to deliver."What a load of crap," reads a

Editors Desk: A reminder - and warning - on Hive behavior
A few weeks ago we stated unequivocally that anyone linking to court records on other bloggers on The Hive would be suspended. That policy still stands. Such attacks are violations of the code of conduct for The Hive and modbee.com.Dan