At Data Center, www.sacbee.com/datacenter, you'll find an easy-to-navigate listing of databases on a variety of topics, from state worker salaries to area home prices and the latest crime statistics. You'll also find Data Surfer, a relaunched blog by Pete Basofin, the Bee's chief researcher, who culls the Internet to bring you the most salient statistics and studies related to today's news.

The Public Eye Investigations page, www.sacbee.com/investigations, highlights The Bee's many watchdog reports, and provides a place for you to pass along tips of government waste, scams or consumer abuse. (Read Editor Melanie Sill's recent column on the paper's investigative work here.)

The two sections (they were previously presented on a single page) were created to spotlight the distinct content of each page. Data Center allows you to comb through the volumes of statistical data we've been able make available to you. Investigations shows the result our investigative reporting, sometimes based on data, which sheds light the workings of institutions in our region -- and beyond.

Take a look. If you have any questions or comments, email me kchavez@sacbee.com.

Sam will share updates on the team, and point out interesting matchups to watch. He'll take questions, and try to respond to as many as he can. For more details on the live blog and Sam's plans, check out his blog, then join Sam 15 minutes before the start of Kings games.

On the page you will find a calendar of upcoming running and walking events and races, a place to ask local training experts questions, photos, stories and a blog by Bee staff members, photos submitted by Bee readers and more. 

Please let us know what you think, and what other information you would like.

Is there any demand or ideas for an online page for recreation and competitive bicylists in the region?

One of The Bee's Sacramento Kings reporters, Sam Amick, got a new iPhone and he's vowed to put its video capability to the test on the Kings blog.

See his first video installment here, as Sam interviews forward Jon Brockman.

Sam also plans to launch a Facebook page on the Kings, so you'll be able to catch his coverage there, too.

If you're a Twitter freak, Sam can be found @sam_amick.

Our Web hosting service and our social networking vendor are working to solve the problem.

While they're working on a fix, our forums, user profiles and user photo galleries also are off-line.

At this point, we can't tell you when the services will be restored.

Thank you for your patience while repairs are being made.

So far, it's our No. 1 story, both yesterday and today.

But there is another feature beating it out for page views.

It's the mega-pictures taken from the Hubble telescope that we posted to our photo blog, The Frame. The Frame is generating about twice the page-view traffic today as the Duvall story.

Take a look, the photos are spectacular.

We'll offer one every Friday and feature it on our home page through the weekend. The weekly quiz and others will be archived in a new section, www.sacbee.com/quiz .

On some of the questions, we've posted links to stories where you can find answers. On other questions, you're on your own.

You can let us know what you think by commenting on this post or using the "feedback" button you'll find on the quiz question pages.

Enjoy.

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After recovering at Sierra Gates, a brain-injury treatment center in Granite Bay, John returned to the facility to photograph patients in a series of photos titled "Burden of Memory." He now lives in New York City.

See the Times' write up for poignant look at John's work.

Though he says he's reading The Bee, McDonald is clearly holding a copy of the L.A. Daily News. The segment starts at 20:50 if you'd like to take a look.

While the governor seeks to sway public opinion, our mission is to deliver news - and lots of it.

Many reporters and newsroom staffers are tweeting information on a variety of subjects, from education and consumer news to sports and state politics. You can see a list of who's tweeting from the Sacramento Bee newsroom and follow them here.

Two of our most popular tweeters are columnist Marcos Breton and political writer Kevin Yamamura. Our Kings beat reporter, Sam Amick, is in a friendly competition with 49ers writer Matt Barrows to see who can attract the most follows. For now, Matt's in the lead with 1,148 followers, two more than Sam.

If news updates is what you want, your best bet is to follow our main Twitter feed at twitter.com/sacbee_news. More than 6,200 people are following us there, and since its inception we've tweeted more than 10,000 breaking news items and updates.

Just for fun, we've ordered our list of tweeters by those who have the most followers.

You can see it after the jump.

http://twitter.com/MarcosBreton - 1,420

http://twitter.com/namn - 1,346

http://twitter.com/mattbarrows - 1,148

http://twitter.com/sam_amick - 1,146

http://twitter.com/kyamamura - 845

http://twitter.com/CapitolAlert - 703

http://twitter.com/matt_weiser - 564

http://twitter.com/TheStateWorker - 521

http://twitter.com/SacBeeMomme - 308

http://twitter.com/jejones_sacbee - 279

http://twitter.com/SB_Ed_Fletcher - 259

http://twitter.com/jimwasserman - 254

http://twitter.com/sleavenworth - 250

http://twitter.com/Ryan_Lillis - 228

http://twitter.com/dianalambert - 179

http://twitter.com/bobbycalvan - 177

http://twitter.com/melaniesill - 168

http://twitter.com/chris_macias - 156

http://twitter.com/carlcostas - 156

http://twitter.com/bbradleysac - 155

http://twitter.com/MelodyGutierrez - 124

http://twitter.com/ShopCheap - 113

http://twitter.com/seanemcmahon - 103

http://twitter.com/sacbeejp - 94

http://twitter.com/paulhgutierrez - 87

http://twitter.com/Kim_Minugh - 87

http://twitter.com/marcuscrowder - 87

http://twitter.com/BWasylkiw - 84

http://twitter.com/BeeLively - 79

http://twitter.com/andyfurillo - 62

http://twitter.com/MSenkoji - 57

http://twitter.com/Cynthia_Hubert - 56

http://twitter.com/SamMcManis - 55

http://twitter.com/BeeTrammel - 52

http://twitter.com/ljkalb - 46

http://twitter.com/Chelsea_Phua - 32

http://twitter.com/robertianlewis - 29

http://twitter.com/Steve_Pajak - 23

http://twitter.com/hectoramezcua - 20

http://twitter.com/BeeHelpful - 3

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It's a small step for the nonprofit group and The Bee with a big goal. The small step: Provide more exposure to the public access cable TV and radio station's efforts to encourage citizen journalism. The big goal: work with groups like Access Sacramento to foster more community dialogue through sacbee, the region's local news site with the biggest audience.

Access Sacramento offers free training to any resident of Sacramento County on how to shoot and edit video, as well as provides a platform for the finished video. The group also offers free courses on how to start a blog or Web site. The group's stated mission: "Giving voice to the thoughts, dreams, opinions and community events not otherwise seen or heard on commercial and public radio, television and other popular forms of media."

The page on sacbee highlights content from the staff of Access Sacramento, including a blog, as well as content from citizens. The staff of Access Sacramento picks the content to highlight.  

Sacbee has a similar page called Helping Others that consists of Bee stories and content from nonprofit, volunteer groups. The page seeeks to inform readers on volunteer efforts and needs around the region.

In both cases, part of the intent of the pages is to give groups trying to make a positive difference in our communities exposure to a bigger audience than they currently get on their respective sites. The Bee would like to work with more such groups and create similar pages. If you belong to such a group and are interested in starting a similar page on sacbee, e-mail me at tnegrete@sacbee.com. If you have some suggestions about the type of community events and information you would like to see on sacbee, please use the comment field below to leave suggestions that others can add to and agree with.