Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is my audio journal as an independent author, creator, and creative services provider. In this episode, the subject is changing mailing list service providers, and how the process revealed two personality / psychological traits of mine that might benefit from a closer look…
This episode was recorded on April 13, 2025, in the mobile studio of MWS Media in and around Huntington Beach, California.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
- Kit, formerly known as ConvertKit, a popular mailing list service provider.
- Kit founder Nathan Barry and his podcast.
- Sendy, self-hosted, pay-once mailing list software.
- Amazon’s Simple Email Service.
- Mautic, an open source, free, self-hosted mailing list and customer management system application.
- MailerLite, another popular mailing list service provider.
- Seth Godin’s “people like us…” essay.
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Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community
Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin, who joined in the days between recording this episode and typing these words.
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Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is usually recorded using an Aurycle a460 large diaphragm studio condenser microphone through a Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD (audio interface for directly connecting microphones and musical instruments to a computer). Outdoor / remote episodes are often recorded using my  omnidirectional condenser lavalier mic. The show is edited and produced in Cakewalk by Bandlab or Audacity. The episode files are hosted and delivered by Amazon Lightsail; the website is hosted by Dreamhost.
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