Yes, I was thinking about that while writing the post. I think it’s a good compromise for situations like this. There’s a permanent and complete record for both parties, and it has the immediacy of a phone call.

Another compromise — hinted at in Calacanis’s comments — is the Tony Benn policy of both sides tape recording the interview, but that may not be possible for everyone because it’s usually only the journalists who have their phones set up to be wired into automatic recording software (or even plain old tape recorders).