Michael Finney Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

I don't think you guys around here are up on this yet, but I've been participating and organizing niche Based Book Sales for a year and half

Browse: https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-2026-basedcon-based-book-sale

This month is one of the big seasonal sales, you might find some rads you like.

In this session, we discuss project updates, the pending anthology release, world-building through a series or collection of works, as well as audiobook distribution and audience access.



Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-episodic-w-michael-finney/id1492769018?i=1000788287371



Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yJ14v1oAHK9HgUYvR88uO?si=713b0ec7ba22429d



YouTube: https://youtu.be/pvNoh6xAss8



iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-episodic-w-michael-fin-102708816/episode/writing-publishing-authorship-8-25-26-343335741

Public Message 5

I've put together the cohort to do personal website development. This isn't a service; you'll be working on improving the site and the media that goes on there.

This will work best if you have something people can acquire or purchase

Indie Author & Publishing News has been up for a week

https://michael-finney.com/indie-author-publishing-news.php

We have it set to 30 headlines for the collection of sources we have (we want more!) but don't want an incomprehensibly long list on the page - currently it goes back just under a month

There's also the AI generated digest

Right now we're working on our next page and we'll be putting that out next week

In the meantime, for the writers and authors, if there are alterations you'd like to see: get in touch

What did I miss there for you?

Big fan - great pics

Keep likes at the price they are - make posting new threads free if off-chain (enable with a toggle - can also be default set to on/off like the post/reply is currently)

Free likes fundamentally undermines what you guys have here and I suspect is being considered for some other desired outcome?

Is that Sztorc at the end?

Released a short film today that @219027 and I worked on with some other folks

PROJECT ASTRAL

https://youtu.be/gygLh7gSSDc

In this Episode, Author Kjell Anders joins the program to talk about how he advanced his career steadily by finding opportunities. He also tells us about his new ⁠Raconteur Press title, "Resurgence of Light"⁠.


Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-episodic-w-michael-finney/id1492769018?i=1000786963011



Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NqFf3PjbhS0BOliF0OdXP?si=f22c2932540c4075



YouTube: https://youtu.be/au5J6BlbEII



iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-episodic-w-michael-fin-102708816/episode/speakercone-kjell-anders-on-writing-342745129

V2 has incorporated a bot to summarize trends and highlight important articles

Writers, authors, publishers: https://michael-finney.com/indie-author-publishing-news.php

I'm less hung up on "minting" as a function and more concerned with the platform competing on monetizing all media works for a %

@301 was doing some stuff back when to enable this that if paired with the social graph enables a media marketplace

This does come back to the point about encrypting the data (keeping it on chain becomes an added fee but you don't need everything to be chain-oriented here either). A Twetch media player with an embed code for us to deploy puts it onto the larger web too

PRIVATE MESSAGE 4

It takes weeks to build, deploy, and report on new website media, so it's good to be working on a few experiments in tandem

I do think social networks offer a catalyzing spark but own a space
https://twetch.com/t/be1d7b9b00deede9d85be245b79b0fa69bd513016877b21e5bf65e7a03d79d6e

You don't understand what I'm saying

I am trying to have fun here

...but also encrypt those posts!

have considered, you have alot of blossoms

Hello @0 can you please encrypt the paywalled messages so this guy can stop whining

Yes, welcome - they need to encrypt these - Luke did this years ago

It can be difficult to find reliable news outlets that aren't a mess of adtech

Here is a site aggregating indie author and publishing news from across the web

Read: https://michael-finney.com/indie-author-publishing-news.php

PRIVATE MESSAGE 3

Analytics and link tracking are becoming more valuable tools, much of this comes on the back of building my catalog in the last few years and putting it into more marketplaces.

We need to know what tactics are working it refine and improve
https://twetch.com/t/f867fbf63a1b1f0bf371f29ac81d61583a697734685dbb7ceefa5d531b5bf22d

PRIVATE MESSAGE 2

I consider these networks as little experiments, catalyzing channels to drive traffic to more owned space like a website. So, after many years of keeping my personal site too barebones, I am launching a content strategy that I will be testing and inviting others into a cohort to work and test together as well
https://twetch.com/t/e9ff4839caf425872d3630b0acb37cc4ecbe3236e2504c5c78f0a2e12c941e6c

We needed more! Oh well

Now that I am more actively paying attention to BSV, what are the developments/projects/news outlets that I should catch up on to get a better sense of what has emerged in the last few years?

Check this out if you haven't yet: https://x.com/mdf365/status/2071013114154201378

PRIVATE MESSAGE 1

What makes microblogging premium value?

At a baseline, I'd put media against functionality but there's plenty of ways to evaluate it

Need a carousel of pinned posts like FB Pages

Thanks - good way of implementing like Discord commands

Ok, so I guess implement all Markdown and then it's potentially a blogging platform - Randy, is there a "Pin Post" feature here?

But then, yeah a referral program - also I don't know how to put paywall on these posts, what button am I not seeing?

Need to get these runtime errors under control so I don't have to open a new window on Safari constantly

Is that what's going on there? I have no idea