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Although it’s been way more than a month, per our little agreement, here’s some recent Merlin-related stuff that may interest you. Really good stuff this time around.

Here’s the latest stuff Merlin’s been up to, here and abroad.

This afternoon we’re (softly, gently) rolling out a new version of 43Folders.com. Here’s some of the new stuff that’s happening.

Without going into extreme amounts of nerd detail, 43 Folders now runs on a content management system called Drupal that lets us do a bunch of neat stuff I’ve been wanting to do for a while now…

Pardon a meta post, but I wanted to offer an apology for the paucity of new feature-length posts here recently, as well as to provide some context for where that time’s been going. A little “behind the scenes” insight, if you’re curious.

I’ve recently added a 43 Folders job board, and I wanted our first post about it to feature family, so I asked some friends to post open positions in their organizations.

• Support Ninja - The Omni Group, Seattle, WA
• Marketing Manager - Adaptive Path, San Francisco, CA
• Intern / Indentured Servant - The Sound of Young America, Los Angeles, CA
• Designer - Grockit, Inc., Telecommute
• Chief Wiki Czar(ina) - 43 Folders, San Francisco, CA

We also carry jobs posted from selected other sites, so there’s already plenty to browse. Want to be an iPhone Engineer at Apple? How about working for The Motley Fool? Maybe just make a quick $1,000.00 on a referral? Well, dig in.

And for the folks out there who need to put butts in Aerons, it’s fast and easy to add your own organization’s jobs to the board. Plus your job may be featured in posts here on the site highlighting the more interesting-looking positions that have been added. (Hint: Check the footer of posts in the 43f RSS feed for news about a substantial launch week discount – ends 7/20, so act soonly)

Thanks for the interest everyone has expressed in us adding a job board – whether you’re looking or hiring, I hope you’ll find it useful and vocationally satisfying.

Values of n Blog: Merlin Mann advises

I’m happy to announce that I’ve accepted an offer to advise Values of n on the development of their Stikkit web application.

In fact, although I’ve been using and loving Stikkit for several months now, I’ve held off talking about it much on 43f until this addition was made official and public¹. But, since I stand to have an advisor’s stake in the business as a result of this work, it was important to tell you guys and properly disclose my involvement before doing much gushing in the content well here.

I have a pile of tips for how I’m using Stikkit and have been regularly poking Rael, Michael, and crew (to what I imagine is the point of polite professional annoyance) with feature ideas and things I want the app to do (hint: everything). So I’m glad I can finally start sharing this stuff, here and elsewhere.

This is the first Advisory Board thing in which I’ve participated (my OmniFocus advising is pro bono and will continue as before), so I’m pretty excited to officially get started.

Anyhow, I wanted you to know about this and to say that I’ll be linking back to this post whenever it’s appropriate to remind you of my proud involvement in Stikkit. I am enthused about where this project is headed, and I’m honored that Rael and his team have let me in on their process.

1. Note that folks in Canada can catch a demo of Stikkit I did on Call for Help which I taped in December, before this was approaching officialness.