{"id":2068,"date":"2007-01-03T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2007-01-03T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T03:28:00","slug":"2068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DOES MY BLOG LOOK FLAT?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businessinnovationinsider.com\/images\/2006\/03\/The%20World%20is%20Flat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After much procrastination, I finally broke down and bought a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaslfriedman.com\/\"><strong>Thomas Friedman&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><em>The World Is Flat<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>in the &#8221; 2.0&#8243; updated hardcover. I&#8217;m thinking of reading it back to back with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativeclass.typepad.com\/thecreativityexchange\/\">Richard Florida&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flight-Creative-Class-Global-Competition\/dp\/006075690X\/sr=1-2\/qid=1167795468\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-3411646-1688641?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><em>The Flight of the Creative Class<\/em><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flight-Creative-Class-Global-Competition\/dp\/006075690X\/sr=1-2\/qid=1167795468\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-3411646-1688641?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\"> <\/a>in order to have a &#8220;Flat vs. Spikey&#8221; comparison.<\/p>\n<p>I have no strong opinion on Friedman. I found much to like in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385499345\/${0}\">The Lexus and The Olive Tree<\/a><\/em><\/strong> though at times, I also found passages in the book to be gratingly irritating which is why I put off reading<strong><em> The World is Flat<\/em><\/strong> as long as I have. I  have had some nice exchanges with Dr. Florida on his blog which means he is relatively accessible if I have questions while I am reading <strong><em>The Flight of the Creative Class<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; an advantage that will no doubt be absent with Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone out there has read both books -or either book for that matter &#8211; feel free to chime in now. I&#8217;d like to hear your opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOES MY BLOG LOOK FLAT? After much procrastination, I finally broke down and bought a copy of Thomas Friedman&#8217;s The World Is Flat in the &#8221; 2.0&#8243; updated hardcover. I&#8217;m thinking of reading it back to back with Richard Florida&#8217;s The Flight of the Creative Class in order to have a &#8220;Flat vs. Spikey&#8221; comparison. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}