Review: An Early Pioneer Amazon Reviewer Shares her Thoughts & Reasoning with Readers: Great Insight. Great Role Model.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
UPDATED REVIEW: I updated this review on July 2, 2014 as I reflected back to lessons I myself have learned from her book and from fellow Amazon reviewers.As an aging pioneer in promoting citizen-journalism and social media myself, and as an early adopter of computers and video cameras in journalism, I started reviewing books at Amazon not long after Rebecca started.Also, I delved into publishing a study of social media, though not with spectacular success. Still, it is nice to find a kindred spirit willing to publish her thoughts and experiences, especially the statistical charts.Rebecca Johnson has provided a well-thought out work to show others that you can fill a niche in society without being a, well, you get the point. You can speak your mind in a kind, loving, caring manner that promotes kind thoughts even while criticizing a book.Mind you, I am less kind than her when I feel a book has failed to deliver.Still, I give Reviewing As A Lifestyle five stars because the book is an outstanding, unique, book every author, every publisher, and every reviewer at Amazon should read.By the way, though I shall never rank as highly as Rebecca, a review I wrote was used by the WinstonChurchill's.org in their Finest Hour issue 119 regarding T E Lawrence (of Arabia) fame. That was a huge high for me in 2002. Not bragging here, just trying to show readers that Reviewing As A Lifestyle is definitely a worthy and rewarding avocation.Thanks Rebecca Johnson for a terrific offering that does add value to cyberspace and social media.I look forward to your updates and to your expanding the conversation.  Here and at twitter.