Comrades!
The revolutionary month
of October has brought both substantial technological innovation and
fresh content to the Voice of the Turtle, still groggy from a protracted
summer slumber.
Behind the scenes, our
new content-management system is finally up and running, lovingly
engineered through the heroic labours of Paul Dundon. From the Editors'
point of view, the new mechanisms automate a great deal of our more
routine work, and makes the ever-expanding Turtle mere child's play
to maintain; the Readers of the Turtle will also benefit in a big
way, for they can now instantly publish their objections and replies,
commentary and criticism, attached to any of the Turtle's Articles
and Reviews - a facility which we urge you all to exploit.
In installing the new site,
we've had to rebuild it from the ground up and we're conscious that
there will be any number of small glitches to round up and purge over
the coming weeks: if you spot anything undone which should be done,
or come across any technological infelicities, please contact the
Editors at the usual address, and we'll try to fix it as soon as we
can.
New content includes the
debut contributions of Mark Harrison, Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Farid Alvie
and Joy Porter, who have been rambling
among the imperialists on the islands of Great Britain, indulging
in some severely
wishful thinking, labeling
themselves, and trying to make
a parcel of missing you respectively. From the Stalwarts of the
Turtle, we have a report on detention
and deportation from Sarwat Viquar and a review of Eduardo
Galeano's recent book by Mark Engler; and our Stakhanovite of
the Month award has been seized by Trevor Landers, five of whose poems
adorn the Turtle this month in what is an intoxicating festival of
socialist verse. The Dictionary continues to expand, with a dozen
new articles on cinematic subjects. Our Salute this month goes out
to the cyclists of
Critical
Mass, shortly after their Tenth Anniversary Ride, and we unveil
the third instalment of our cyber-serial, the Mao
of Pooh.
More will be posted quite
soon -- the times of transition at the Turtle have led to a not-quite-cleared
backlog of valuable material, which we will aim to shift in the days
to come. In the meantime, continue to send in your articles and reviews,
dictionary entries and soup recipes, and the Turtle will sail from
strength to strength.
The Editors
