Disruptive Proactivity

One of the reasons for doing TheWhitehouseSays.com was to make it possible to do US – UK comparisons of what the leaderships of the “Executive branch” (ish, in the case of UK) were saying on topics, and being able to look at them side by side.

That site is www.spinDifferent.com and is open for business.

As part of building that, someone had the idea that since the UN’s Secretary General has an Official Spokesman, in the same way as the UK Prime Minister and the US Press Secretary, we
could add them too. www.theUNsays.com (but we’re still waiting for the logo for it).

One advantage that this gives spinDifferent is the change to look at where things come on agendas – look at the Sudan example, and you can see something that the UN is spending more time talking about something that the US and UK aren’t that much. Looking at issues of interest in one or other countries, you see how they treat the same issues. In some, it’s completely different (health), but there may be very different policies underneath.