Three cheers for the Skype interview?

Rosemary G. Feal argues that, all in all, the MLA supports multiple "best practices" for the interview process, which may include Skyping, traditional conference interviews, all of the above, or perhaps none of the above.  One might add that if Skype fails to work--incidentally, I tried to sit in on our interviews via Skype last year after my flight to Chicago was canceled, and Skype indeed failed to work--committees could always resort to that old-fashioned technology known as the phone.  Obviously, there are always potential issues with Skype access, like poor connectivity, but if a university can afford to run a doctoral program, they can certainly afford to make it possible for their graduate students to interview on Skype (or related teleconferencing applications).  Departments will need to invest time in prepping their candidates for Skype, as there are some very basic issues that need to be resolved--e.g., where to sit in relation to the camera so as to make eye contact with the folks on the other end, how to eliminate distractions if the candidate is interviewing at home, and so forth.  But departments should be prepping their candidates for interviews anyway.