I’m working on revamping every Kore New Media websites. I’ve been experimenting with WordPress as a platform for webdesign and have learned quite a bit about using it and will be making decisions accordingly. I will likely not be using WP in this revision, instead good ‘ol Photoshop and Dreamweaver, my constant friends.

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.

Walt and Zac are working on a new version of Kore News, hopefully to be delivered next week!

On September 20, Kore Commentary 9 will come out. This month, we watch Airplane (Don’t Call Me Shirley! Edition).

If you already have the DVD, awesome, we’ll see you there, but if you don’t, you can buy it from Amazon and have it in time for the realease!

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.

Kore RPG 26 is in queue and will be released September 2!

Scott Langston’s busy schedule prevented him from recording as often as we’d like, so he’s left The Kore.

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!

On July 26, Kore Commentary will come out. This month, we watch 300 (Two-Disc Special Edition).

If you already have the DVD, awesome, we’ll see you there, but if you don’t, you can buy it from Amazon and have it in time for the realease!

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!

Kore New Media now has their flickr photos linked from KoreNewMedia.com!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/korenewmedia

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!

On June 21, Kore Commentary will come out. This month, we watch Star Wars episode I (The Phantom Menace).

About half the show is making fun of Jar Jar, but that’s to be expected, right?

Side Note: Walt thinks Qui-Gon Jinn is a city in Korea= Benjamin Adams

If you already have the DVD, awesome, we’ll see you there, but if you don’t, you can buy it from Amazon and have it in time for the realease!

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.

We’ve put a calendar up at http://korenewmedia.com/schedule/. This is not only where we show you what show to expect when, but also if we’re going to do a live recording or local event, we’ll not only announce it on out blog here, but also place the date on our calendar.

Did you know we have some contests running?

You can win a $25 gift certificate to the iTunes Store just for posting in the contest thread (Thanks Zac!) or win a copy of Guild Wars with in-game money and one-on-one tutorial with Walt Snider personally!

Benjamin Adams is helping with the workload here at Kore New Media by taking over all research, writing, planning  and editing for Kore News shows. He’ll be sure to insert his unique humor to the arrangement of stories and be sure to see a lot more naughty bits… and stories!

Updated 2009 June 29: Benjamin Adams is moving next month and is focusing on family and the move, so Walt Snider has taken it back. Please forward all news stories to Walt Snider again.

Spending a beautiful Sunday morning indoors, Walt Snider has all the show notes for Kore RPG migrated over to Kore Notes and has updated the RSS feed as well. Now the complete archive of Kore RPG, all 31 episodes (we may be on #22 presently, but remember some are part 1/2) are available in the feed.

In order to keep costs at a minimum and make things easier on the Kore New Media producation staff, we’re making the following changes to all Kore New Media online assets:

All of the show domains (Kore News is a show, korenews.com is the domain) will now feature a link to the show notes website with that particular show’s show notes and archive of shows. They’ll also feature links for forums, show feeds, a 20-minute sample of that particular show and a description of the particular show. There will also be a tutorial linked from the site on what a podcast is and how to subscribe to it. Previously, there was an assumption that anyone going to that domain would know what a podcast is and how to use show notes. Kore New Media is working on a friendlier way to introduce those not familiar with podcasting to the new medium.

The Blog is getting its own domain. Kore New Media blog posts were either in a subdomain (eg. http://blog.korenewmedia.com) but in keeping with our new branding campaign, we’re making it easier to remember. www.KoreBlog.com

Forums were previously at Podcast Society (podcastsociety.com) and was intended as free forums for other podcasters, but after only a couple other podcasters joined up, we’re changing the name to Kore Forums. www.KoreForums.com

Show Notes were previously located at Kore Central as we had the domain and nothing to do with it, but it makes more sense to have show notes at Kore Notes. Listeners can come to the site and click the name of the show they want notes for and see not only the show notes, but complete archive of shows. www.KoreNotes.com

RSS and iTunes Feeds are being migrated to Kore Feeds. At one point in early 2009, they were hosted at orangehed.com, but it was determined that sending listeners away from a Kore-specific domain was diluting the Kore New Media brand, so this was corrected. www.KoreFeeds.com

Timeline for the above changes are as follows:

• Kore Blog is up and running, in fact you’re there right now.
• Kore Forums is up and running. Technically speaking, it’s just redirecting to PodcastSociety.com. Podcast Society’s Artwork will change to suit the new graphical branding across all Kore New Media domains.
• Kore Notes is expected up by the end of May. We’ve got more than 200 shows to transfer and update links, so it’ll take some time.
• Kore Feeds will be up by the end of May, following Kore Notes.

Please voice your comments/concerns below in the comments or in the forums at KoreForums.com.

Over the past couple weeks we’ve been running a contest for new logos but have actually received no submissions as of yet. Walt Snider has been locked away in a basement and has been revamping logos admist editing shows and watching his kids during Spring Break.

Over the past couple weeks we’ve been running a contest for new logos but have actually received no submissions as of yet. Walt Snider has been locked away in a basement and has been revamping logos admist editing shows and watching his kids during Spring Break.

In an email from Mike G. from Lake Worth, FL to Walt Snider on August 22, 2008:

Pretty cool stuff!

His words were referencing the Kore News Podcast.

We’re happy to have such great listeners. Thanks, Mike G!

Check out Kore News at www.KoreNews.com and see www.KoreNewMedia.com for tons of other great podcasts created by The Largest Independent Podcast Group in the World!

In an email from J.C. Hutchins to Walt Snider on July 4, 2008:

I laughed long and loud as I listened to your MP3. Heee! You and the Kore News team are made of AWESOME. Thanks so much for sharing this with me — and more important, thanks for endorsing the bona-fide on your show! Please extend my fanboyish gratitude to the rest of the group as well.

His words were referencing episode 30 of Kore News where we were promoting John Alpha for President.

We’re very excited to have such a podcasting powerhouse say such nice things about us. Thanks, Hutch!

Check out Kore News at www.KoreNews.com and see www.KoreNewMedia.com for tons of other great podcasts created by The Largest Independent Podcast Group in the World!