Our guest this week is our former Seattle P-I colleague Art Thiel , the veteran Seattle sports columnist and co-founder/president of SportsPress Northwest , an online sports journalism venture. We talk about subjects including sports journalism in the digital age, how technology has changed the way teams and athletes communicate with fans, and the tech moguls behind the region’s pro sports teams.
In our weekly news roundup, we talk about an innovative new travel technology startup, and the future of Microsoft’s Kinect sensor.
With the final release of Internet Explorer 9 just around the corner, we talk with Ryan Gavin, senior director on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, about the features of the new browser, web standards, plans for IE9 on Windows Phone 7, the meaning of a “modern” browser, and the competition with Firefox, Chrome and Safari.