Caroline Paige Mann was born on February 12, 2010. She weighed in at precisely 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long.

Suffice it to say, Ana and I have been over-the-moon happy. Here’s a look at the last nine months, building up one very special day.

This is a quick overview of the Digital 2010 Roles initiative we rolled out across the state last month.

At the crack of dawn this morning, I treked into Camden to give a short overview of the Courier-Post website, CourierPostOnline.com, as well as some cool ways that people in the community can use it. Here is is. Enjoy.

Last weekend I spoke at WordCamp NYC about what we’re building out on InJersey. WordPress is the software that makes InJersey possible, and my talk focused on how we use it here, as well as how we employ BuddyPress to help build up and communicate with our network of community bloggers.

It was a great session — despite being held at 5pm, very near to the end of the day, when I imagine most attendants were more interested in getting their drink on than in learning about hyperlocal journalism. Still, I’m still flattered that we had such great attendance and such engaging questions. Thanks to everyone who turned out, and please, don’t be shy about shooting me any and all questions about how we use WordPress.

Here are the slides from my talk:

One of the things that Day 1 of WordCamp has inspired me to do is upgrade BuddyPress to the latest version. Please excuse any wonky behavior while I set out to do this in the next day.

Lately I’ve been taking on a few side projects for fun. Alright, maybe “fun” is pushing it — “challenging” is probably more apt.

The latest of these is a video I created for a site called SeeClickFix. I’ve been working with these guys a lot lately, getting up a variety of widgets and embedded maps onto the InJersey blogs (Cherry Hill, Collingswood, Flemington, Freehold, Madison, Vineland, and Somerset Hills). The maps allow you to submit reports on potholes, graffiti, and other things in your neighborhood that need fixing. What I did was create a short video for them that explains how users can also create “Watch Areas” — which in turn allow them to be notified every time somebody submits an issue in their area. This is how, say, the Public Works Dept in a town can get notified about each and every new pothole.

Just my way of saying thanks to the developers there for all the hard work they’ve been doing to get their snazzy new widgets fully compatible with InJersey and the Gannett NJ newspaper sites.