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Great news and terrible news.

Terrible news: The host that had a family member that was in serious condition… lost the family member. It is truely a sad time here at Kore New Media.

Great news: Walt Snider’s father is recovering nicely and is expected to up and around by May.

We are still scheduled to return Monday, April 19, 2010.

Thanks so much for your patience during these very trying times for us all. For your daily Kore Fix, check our spillover blog at www.JobWellDumB.com

Please listen to the most recent podcast in our master feed for details. We’ll be offline for a while.

What an asshole O’Reilly is! He tries to spin the interview toward his own ideals and attacks Stewart and his staff.

We’re adding advertising from two sources:

1. GoDaddy.com: We’re getting a coupon code to save you guys money.
2. Google AdSense: Ads are being injected in to the podcast feeds… these will just be text and maybe images.

If we can start gaining revenue from publishing our podcasts, we can start providing you more shows and hopefully most of them in video!

Update April 8, 2010: We’ve decided not to go forward with GoDaddy advertising.

We finished recording Kore RPG’s Myr Campaign Book One earlier this week and Walt Snider is hard at work getting shows edited on a more regular schedule so there hopefully won’t be any more lapse in the schedule… hopefully!

We ended on recording episode 43, so there’s a little shy of 20 to edit and put up.

Just to keep you on the edge of your seat, as you should be, one of the characters dies in #42. Seriously. Are we going to tell you who it is? Of course not!

In February 2009, Curt “The Camera Guy” Arndt planned to podfade the ENnie Award Nominated Wandering Geek Podcast citing lack of time. Curt approached good friend and Kore New Media’s founder, Walt Snider, and asked if he would like to take on the show and add it to Kore New Media’s roster. Walt immediately agreed, indicating that there may be some changes down the road.

The show is still family safe, though mostly because co-host Scott Langston keeps Walt under control! We strive to retain the essence of Wandering Geek Podcast as Curt left it, but have expanded the geeky news offerings, scaling back on the the DVD and MMO news, with Scott rounding out each show with tips on playing boardgames, wargames, and RPGs while traveling.

In keeping with the “Kore” theme that Kore New Media has coined, Wandering Geek Podcast is being renamed to Kore Geek and the official website is now located at www.KoreGeek.com. Same great geek, new name!

Both, not amazingly, are Ben’s fault!

Kore News: Ben wanted to take over show notes and production, but let two episodes slip by, so Walt has taken everything over again. Expect an episode out Thursday!

Kore RPG: Walt and Ben are the only hosts that live a reasonable drive from each other (20 mins), every other host lives in a different state or country from each other, so Walt drives to Ben’s and we record there for many of our shows and pipe Skype in and talk with the other guys… Ben’s Mac’s soundcard offers better recording quality than any of Walt’s laptops (yeah, he admits it!) so all the recordings are on Ben’s machine… since we weren’t sure what episode number we were recording, Ben named the episode KoreRPG2?.wav. When we searched for “25″, obviously nothing came up, so we assumed either Walt had it on his machine for some reason or it was lost. Fortunately it was found and is in production right now!

By the way: Don’t forget Kore News 100 will be in video and you will NOT want to miss it! Expect it early July!

We’ve been getting a lot of news story submissions from you guys and we really appareciate it! We’re putting the finishing touches on a user-generated show and it should be out this month! Thanks, WE LOVE YOU GUYS!

Walt Snider’s computer crashed Tuesday night (thanks Microsoft for releasing your completely-tested patches!) and lost some data for Kore RPG. Please be patient as he tries to catch up with his businss files and then podcasting.

Most other shows will remain unaffected as they are recorded the day before or day of. (News, Movies, Games, etc.)

Can you draw and want your hand at a webcomic? Check out the post at Kore Forums for details!

Walt Snider has updated the tags on all the mp3 files to reflect the current websites in comments, show names and the new show artwork as well.