Hello everyone!  This isn’t exactly a blog entry, so much as a personal note from the Wandering Goblin editors to our fans.  The dealio is this:  over the past three years, Wandering Goblin has been a lot of fun, a great experiment, and a terrific learning experience.  The site has allowed us to travel, meet some of the most fascinating people in the world, and explore the geek in each of us.  The site even morphed a few times, going from an MMO site, to a general gaming site, to an even more general geek site.  The problem is that Wandering Goblin isn’t free to run, and it just doesn’t have the fanbase to support any real pay advertising.  In fact, each month, it runs in the red.

So we’re going to try something new, and that something new is Cool-O-Rama.  Cool-O-Rama is, in many ways, a lot like Wandering Goblin.  For one, it’s run by the same editors, Acea, Deirdre, Kristoff, and myself.  Just like we do now, we’ll continue to hunt down the geekiest stories we can find, and bring them to you, our readers.  However, Cool-O-Rama is a much more grandiose idea.  With Cool-O-Rama, we’re forming partnerships with other very cool blogs; it’s all  in an attempt for us to be heard above the din of all the well financed, very prominent, very vapid big media sites that now dominate the web.  The benefit for out partner blogs is that they get a lot more exposure than they could ever get on their own.  The benefit for you, the reader, is that Cool-O-Rama gathers content from all over the internet, and brings it all together in one convenient, fun to read place.

In about a week, we’re going to shut Wandering Goblin down, and anyone visiting WG will be redirected to Cool-O-Rama.  We hope you, the 2500 of you faithful readers that visit us each day, will stay with us during the change-over.

Also, if you have any feedback on the new site, please let us know what you think.  We can be reached at staff[at]coolorama[dot]com.  Thanks to all of you!

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