Joan Westenberg promotes the idea of posse (publish on your own site and union elsewhere) or what I called Social media attachment base – Blogs. This can be Just another blogBut it's mine. Westenberg also promotes real simple syndication (RSS). Me too. Therefore, the idea that, “Conservation is the last hope of intelligent discourse” resonated with me.
While algorithms produce large amounts of information with various degrees of precision and quality, the demanding judgment of human conservatives is the only defense against the wave of disinformation and mediocrity. Human conservatives provide nuanced understanding, contextual consciousness and ethical judgment at the table – the qualities that AI, in its current state, is fundamentally unable to reproduce.
Human conservatives can distinguish between nuanced arguments, recognize cultural subtleties and assess the credibility of sources in a way that algorithms cannot. This human touch is essential to maintain the integrity of our information ecosystem. It serves not only as a filter for quality but also as signal for significant and trustworthy content in the middle of the crushing noise generated by AI systems. –Joan Westenberg 2025-01-10
We need manual, not automatic, for creating meaning I wrote in 2012 and confirmed that Manual SensemakinG was essential in 2025 – The process of researching information sources, to give them meaning through certain actions, then to share with others to confirm or accelerate our knowledge is interconnected activities from which knowledge – often slowly – emerge.
The flood of artificially generated “content” turns into a tidal wave. Erosion of skills is a clear danger – if you do not use it, you will lose it. Automatize what was once a developed process and these skills will decrease.
Westenberg raises a good point on the democratizing nature of individual blogs.
The personal website is the ultimate sovereign territory online, allowing creators to share content according to their own conditions. These sites export their ideas to the digital public square while filtering outgoing information to cultivate wisdom and perspective. These are extensible documents that live in time depending on the trip of the site owner.
Places like this blog are always our sovereign territory. It is the heart of my Find> Sense> Share practical. As Robin good said, “Conservation aims to give meaning to a subject / problem / event / person / product, etc. For a specific audience. »» We need more preservatives.
More about the idea of - Observation> Narration> Curation. Conservation begins with observation, which requires curiosity.
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