Diane Vera

I've been away for a long time -- very busy with a new job, among other things.

Some good news: As of this past month, I've found a very passionate co-administrator for the budding NYC proto-congregation of the Church of Azazel, and also for New Yorkers Against Religion-Based Bigotry. Hopefully both can now, finally, begin to get off the ground. I cannot launch them all by myself.

( How to reach me in the future, next time I'm away from this blog for a long time. )

Due to other things going on in my life, I've had to withdraw more-or-less completely from the online theistic Satanist scene for the past 10 months.

I'm now back.

Before I left, I was in process of creating the "theistic Satanism blog network," which, as I then envisioned it, would use a PHP script to simulate a forum using blogs. The script would automatically display links to the latest posts on all blogs, organizing the posts into five categories by topic and intended audience. The idea was to replace my theistic Satanism Yahoo groups with something as similar as possible.

At least for now, I've given up on the idea, because I still don't have enough time to work on the script. Instead, at least for now, the Theistic Satanism Blog Network will be simply be a listing of blogs which link back to my Theistic Satanism Blog Network page.

If I ever do revive the script idea, I'll need to think more carefully about the details too. For example, the topicality guidelines as I then envisioned them may be too complicated to enforce.

As announced earlier, I hope soon to launch a blog network. It is taking me longer than expected to write the needed script. It will probably be at least another month before I'm ready to roll.

In the meantime, I would appreciate it very much if interested people could (1) experiment with blogs on one or more of thg blog hosts we'll be using, (2) email me the URL's of your blogs, and (3) begin using network tags, so that, when the network script is ready, there will be posts ready to display.

Once the script is finished, there will be pages on my Theistic Satanism site containing automatically updated lists of recent posts with particular tags on all member blogs, one such page per tag. For more information, please see my pages about the Theistic Satanism Blog Network.

I would very much appreciate comments on my drafts of network policies.