Kevin Kelly pointed a few days ago to this essay by Dan Cook, a designer of online Flash games, on how game designers can make money. As Kevin points out, there’s an awful lot of stuff in Dan’s essay that could be applied to other creative fields where a limited professional class is facing enormous [...]

I watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday — my allotted two minutes of horse racing a year — and got to see jockey Calvin Borel pilot a 50-1 longshot named Mine That Bird to a stirring come-from-behind victory. (My interest in horse racing is pretty much limited to rooting for jockeys like Borel, Robby Albarado, [...]

The New York Sun, which shuttered in September, appears to be making some sort of comeback online.
Amanda Gordon, the erstwhile newspaper’s society columnist, has been blogging on nysun.com since April 10, when she wrote, “I will be resuming Out & About for The New York Sun.” And yesterday the site posted an unsigned editorial [...]