As you may know, at the end of last month, we put out listings for seven new editorial staff positions. (See the full listings here.) So I wanted to give people a quick update.

To date we've received a little over 250 applications for those seven positions. And we are definitely still taking applications. Collectively speaking, they're definitely the best group of applications for any jobs we've advertised for before. And all that from the single post on TPM.

More details on where we are in the process after the jump ...

Because we're a small organization and because these hires are so critical, I'm reading all the applications myself, though others on staff are obviously reading them as well. And that takes some time. As of today, I've read the majority of them. And we're about half way through -- or a bit further than that through -- making initial decisions on who to contact for interviews. The key point is: don't draw any conclusion from fact that you haven't heard from us yet, if you haven't. I've only spoken to two or three people. And we plan to be in touch with dozens more.

The tentative plan at the moment is that we'll be contacting people about interviews later this week, through next week and perhaps into the following week.