Thomas L. Friedman - Politics is Flat: What happens when we have a dog’s hearing?

Quick sampler of three new chapters of his book “the world is flat.”

Talking about guys CEOs fear — the new activist… BLOGGERS! *OH SNAP.* Talking about grassroots praise and social entreprenuers. Politic2.0 anyone? WikiReview anyone?

Talking about an environmentalist group that stopped building 11 power plants spewing co2. Company TXU. Pretty funny. Anacedotal stories aren’t my liveblogging forte, sorry. Get more deets.

Activism is so easy, so cheap and so readily available: If it’s not happened, it’s cause you’re not doing it. That mantra gets some claps.

On to chapter two: What happens when we all have dog hearing?

Some of the downsides of social entreprenuership. Relays a story about a paris taxi driver talking on his bluetooth headphone, watching a movie and driving while the writer writes a column, rides in his taxi and listens to the iPod. Two people doing six things.

Social downsides are parital attention. The technologies uniting us are seperating us. This is interesting, but you’ve got to just get the book, because that’s what’ he’s reading from.