Second Chance Saturday: Week 395

Good morning Carol Williams   some interesting titles this week and I actually caught a few earlier 

thanks for your efforts

Good morning, Carol... just four for me today.... but I have had a crazy busy week and the weekend will be equally so. Happy Saturday!

Good Saturday morning, Carol.

Thank you very much for your recommendations.

We have good weather for the golfers in Maryland. 68 degrees at 8:25 a.m. 

Good morning Carol. One full cup of coffee and ready for a refill, I have gone through your Second Chance selections. It took a full cup of coffee to read and comment on all bet one. Thanks to catching Scott's post the first time around I avoided having to admit to a wipeout, so happy to see his post. Thanks for another wonderful Second Chance post. Enjoy your day. 

It's neat to see some of the newbies getting active, and I think I have even received a comment or two from a couple of them, haha.

Hello Carol and thank you for your Saturday list to share with us.  I think I have most of them already commented on.

Hi Carol....well you picked out some of the posts I thought were fantastic this past week!  Lots of good stuff to read lately!  Enjoy your weekend!

I am really glad that you, Kathy, and Bill post their thoughts, that they have been parsed from countless others, and thus you save the reader so much time!

The music industry was like this: they decided who was worthy of recording and marketing an act, and who was not.

The book publishing industry is like this too.  Editors receive manuscripts and decide which is going to be published.

News organizations also want to tell you who is politically correct and who is not.

Well, guess what.

All these folks are being upended with social media baloney.

I say baloney, because anyone who wishes to play music, write a book, or become a politician does not have to go through any gatekeepers any more.

The 'freedom' of online publishing means that anyone with any idea whatsoever can throw out their work online and hope for the best.  Unfortunately it doesn't work that well.

Unless you can find the content, it is meaningless.  Like the felled tree in the forest story.  Again: it is marketing, paid or word of mouth, that amounts to any positive representation to the public.

If you don't get a referral meme or idea or video link from your friends or associates, who got it from someone else, you would have never heard about that song, that article, or that insane political maneuver that was just made.

So

Thank you for editing out what YOU think is worthy for us to discover.  Thank you.

Thank you Ma'am for the inclusion. It was one of those posts that just took minutes to write because it all flowed out so naturally.   And I also found some really cool reading among your other picks this week after I got all sweaty with planting flowers this morning.  Now I'm about to have a cup of coffee and finish my latest murder mystery.

Carol Williams this month's AR challenge should provide a lot of excellent blogs for you list.

Thank you as always for your list of posts! I appreciate you!!

Hi Carol- Thank you for doing this each week. I see one I missed and also a few that we see eye to eye on.

Hi Carol,

I'm finally getting to Active Rain and had to start with your Saturday post! I see I missed dome so will go check them out!

Carol Williams thank you so much, I really appreciate the boost.

Carol, well, another very busy week, had two days of garage sales.  Getting rid of stuff.... Read only two of these posts.

I adore these summaries...I end each weekend by reviewing them!!

Carol, "Second Chance Saturday" continues to be a fantastic way to highlight the diverse voices and valuable insights within the ActiveRain community. Showcasing first-time bloggers is a wonderful way to encourage new participation. It's clear this weekly roundup is a much-appreciated resource!