It’s a serious issue in contemporary journalism: how do you record phone interviews while using a headset?<\/p>\n
Radio Shack sells a nice, cheap device (the previously reviewed Mini-Phone Recorder<\/a>) that interrupts the cord that goes from the handset to the phone, which works well when you’re using the handset. But when I do interviews by phone, I like to type a rough transcript while I talk, and typing while clamping a handset to your ear with your shoulder can quickly get painful.<\/p>\n When I first confronted this problem earlier this year, I spent a lot of time on the internet looking for solutions. The ones I found were pretty unappetizing. The main technology on offer is a microphone that you stick in your ear<\/a>, which seems both unpleasant and ineffective.<\/p>\n