poetandgeek.com welcomes the British Library

poetandgeek.com is happy to announce its long-term storage for the benefit of poet and geeks in the future.

The British Library, one of a handful of state deposit libraries in the UK, will have legal backing from today to collect and store every UK site, blogs including this one, online magazines like our very own soon to be published poetandgeek.com Issue 6 (and all the rest) and ebooks, and the ephemera of Facebook and Twitter (to be regarded in the future something like the pamphlet writing of Daniel Defoe).

You can find out more here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/05/british-library-archive-webpages-tweets

Inaccessible island

With a name as if from Daniel Defoe but probably most likely a corruption of the Dutch ship 't Nachtglas which first discovered it, this island is covered in rough grass, small spiny trees and cliffs which rise to over 300m. Its animal life which is almost uncorrupted by human interference is different on the small stretch of flattish shore from that of the cliffs above.

Subject for an allegory?

You can find out more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island.