I’ve culled 66 applications down to a final few candidates for the new [Director of Digital Things job](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2010/hiring-a-new-person).
Since several candidates live outside Los Angeles, we did video interviews by iChat — which was a remarkably good second-best solution. It’s odd meeting someone on video, but once you push past the first 30 awkward seconds, it feels remarkably natural. I feel like I have a much better sense of the individual than I would on a phone call.
The contenders are each working on a short challenge project, which is due later this week. I’ve left it up to the candidates whether to make their work public.