(repost)

Hello! As you know, The Webcomic Beacon website is going through a re-branding. This will become The Webcast Beacon Network.

In fact, it already is. If you are seeing this post, you are on the WRONG website and possibly weeks behind the shows.

Here is where you’ll want to go for future episode of The Webcomic Beacon, The Tropecast, and The Webcomic Beacon Newscast. These will all have separate RSS feeds (iTunes feeds coming soon), as they will all be separate podcasts. Also coming is Webfiction World; a new podcast revolving around web serials and fiction. ALL of these shows can also be followed by a single master feed.

What does this mean for WebcomicBeacon.com and your current feed?

Well, basically, www.WebcomicBeacon.com will stay up for a short while (I’ll update both sites), before it starts to redirect to the new website. I hope to wrangle old links to redirect to their appropriate posts. When this happens, it will be highly likely that the old site (this site) will break. Your feed will also break. YOU MUST GRAB A NEW RSS FEED! For iTunes users, I’m not sure if it will update, or if you’ll need to grab a whole new feed link.

Either way WILL LOSE The Tropecast and Webcomic Beacon Newscast, as they are going to be separated…. So you’ll likely need grab the new feeds to keep up on them, or just grab the master feed link.

We are gearing up for the very near launch of the new website, which will officially happen when Webfiction World debuts. For now, the new site IS accessible, and please report back any thing that seems broken. Most of the site is available, but some tweeks are still underfoot. OH! Please check out the new contact page, as well.

Thank you all for listening, (the podcast below basically says all I say here, but for those that just have the feeds).

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You SHOULD be at WebcastBeacon.com!

Please update your bookmarks & RSS feed

(This site gets shows a week late)

Tim Holtorf joins A. M. Harte to talk to you about fantasy style webfiction.

Reading: Black Mask & Pale Rider The Broach by Tim Holtorf, read by Kara Dennison

Music: Avast Your Ass by Kitsune² (Squaredance) *320k MP3 available for purchase.

Notes: Scryer’s Gulch by MeiLin Miranda, An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom by MeiLin Miranda, 314 Crescent Manor by M Jones, The Peacock King by Irk and Char, The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely by Andrew D. Fanton


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You SHOULD be at WebcastBeacon.com!

Please update your bookmarks & RSS feed

(This site gets shows a week late)

Ryan Estrada (Aki Alliance, Sci-Fi Drive-By, and more…) is here to join Fes Works, Tanya Higgins, and Mark Savary for this week’s episode!




The break song was Road Tripper by Carrie Dahlby | Notes: Cartoon Commune, Facebook vs Google+ (Rooster Teeth) – Milestones: 14 Nights (100), The Jupiter Palladium (1yr), Holiday Wars (1yr)

 

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You SHOULD be at WebcastBeacon.com!

Please update your bookmarks & RSS feed

(This site gets shows a week late)

Just a short episode this week, as we are without Rosscott. Instead we have Alex Heberling, Michael Dellheim, and Fes Works running this week’s episode. Thanks to Eric Kimball, our newshound for collecting articles. Not all articles may have been gone over in detail, but they are all listed for you.

A reminder that The Webcomic Beacon is wanting to have a call-in show soon, where they want your webcomic stories of going on hiatus, and what you did to come back from it. You can email us, or leave a voicemail at 1+320-310-0922; or of course stay tuned for the coming episode.


 Continue for News Articles and Discussion Links...

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News

Webcomics Killed the Xeric Grant?
Original Source: Robot 6

Borders Goes Bankrupt
Original Source: Robot 6 and The Daily Cartoonist

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Tech

Tezuka Moves to a Digital Strategy
It was announced last Wednesday that the works of Osamu Tezuka — one of manga’s founding fathers and greatest masters — are now available in English as a digital archive accessible via an application for Apple’s iPad.

“I hope that we will consider the spirit of Osamu Tezuka as we transmit his works to new audiences using digital technology,” said Takayuki Matsutani, President of Tezuka Productions Co. Ltd., at the Toyko launch of the app. “I am aware of the troubles in the market, and hope that we can contribute to a recovery.”

Original Source: The Japan Times – via: Bleeding Cool

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Biz

Not Micropayment, Microtrasactions. A Lesson For the Videogame Industry
Original Source: Extra Credits

More Concerns Over Amazons Pricing
Original Source: Collective Inkwell

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Law

Android’s Legal Woes.
Microsoft has struck licensing deals with a handful of Android manufacturers including HTC, while Oracle is suing Google and may be looking for a big settlement from Google or its hardware partners. And Apple may not be looking for royalties at all from HTC, Motorola and others, but might be content to ban Android products or force costly workarounds.
Original Source: GiGaOM 1, GiGaOM 2

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Education

Webcomic Tip Roundup
Original Source: The Art Patient – via Comix Talk

Does Social Media Get in the Way of Creativity?
The addiction to the endless interruption and engagement does make it hard to find the flow of creation. The endless ping of your phone makes it harder to live in the moment, to be present. Observing life is so much a part of the creative process for me that the constant distraction of social media has become problematic.
Original Source: GiGaOM

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Discussion

Should Webcomics Retcon?
Original Source: MTV Geek

Two Webcomics Picked up for Animated Series
Original Source: Centre Daily and Variety – via: Frumph’s Twitter

Webcomics: Gene’s Journal and Chickenhare

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Tidbits

Webcomicers Pitch Their Ideas to DC and Marvel
Original Source: Gamma Squad

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Oddities

Mark Meets Tom
Original Source: Rooster Teeth

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