Thx--I'll definitely take you up on that. My setup is certainly sub-optimal, but me not being on camera is deliberate. On my second interview, I lost my feed and so went without it. After it was done, I thought it worked better than the first (with me in it). Since the interviewee does the vast majority of the talking, it seemed I was just sitting there being distracting from the main content. But maybe I'm wrong?
It breaks with the norm, but I think it may be preferable for interviews. All we want from the host is for them to be a question-enhancing proxy for ourselves. Seeing your own face in a mirror wouldn't improve the experience of interviewing someone yourself, so seeing the host's shouldn't either.
