• At Corporate HQ for mobile strategy powwow (@ Gannett w/ @chump @obrienmedia) http://4sq.com/4y1gWP #
• Group buying comes to Gannett http://802shopping.com/new-group-buying-deals/ #

• RT @scobleizer Foursquare’s Yelp problem (they just got time to figure it all out) http://bit.ly/c9fCNx #
• RT @paidContent Yahoo Brings Very Big Ads To Its Log-In Page | paidContent http://cnt.to/kHY #

Today was a trifecta of special occasions: Caroline’s christening, Ana’s birthday, and my first father’s day. Suffice it to say that it was a busy 24 hours at the Mann house. I wanted to have something extra special for both Ana and Caroline — the two women who have give my life such happiness — so for the past month or so I’ve been working on a project: a book entitled “Your Friend the Ceiling Fan.”

The book was published through Blurb, the same service I used to create “My Father and Other Manns: Volume 2″ last year. (It’s just about the best service for self-publishing that I’ve come accross, though for small orders of only 2 or 3 books, it can be kinda pricey.)

As anyone who knows Caroline is well aware, she’s just bonkers for ceiling fans. No matter what room or what house she’s in, if she lies on her back and sees a ceiling fan overhead, it makes her downright giddy. The book is my attempt to tell the story of how all her ceiling fans came to be.

But really, it’s just my way of telling my wife and daughter how madly in love with both of them I am.

• RT @incherryhill Wegmans plans liquor store in Cherry Hill http://bit.ly/b67O6R #
• @johnpaul do you buy the notion that the full wrap-around metal band will boost iPhone 4's antannea enough to stop the dropped call madness? in reply to johnpaul #

I don’t often blog here about work-related things, but I’m gonna do so today, just this once, to talk about WordPress MU, the blog software I manage to run Gannett NJ’s blogs on APP, CourierPostOnline, Daily Record, MyCentralJersey, and The Daily Journal.

I’ve been working on MU for a long time, ever since I started blogging at LoHud and helping to administer the blogs there. And while I’m about as big a WordPress fanatic as you’ll find in the newspaper business, few of my colleages (much less family and friends) have an interest in the nitty gritty of how the blogs work.

That said, I wanted to post about MU — and specifically, the WPMU DEV Premium site — today for two reasons:

1. There’s a contest involved, and I’m a sucker for contests

2. There’s been a debate raging for the last couple weeks over on wpmu.org that is really intriguing, and I wanted to give my $.02 here