I'm a little hesitant to post this today, not wanting to distract from the serious meta discussion on the front page.  My personal opinion on Where do we go from here is in the comments, and I'll certainly elaborate in the future.  I encourage you to leave your own thoughts in the comments as well.  We as a community have a huge debt of gratitude to Chris and Matt, who broke ground in many, many ways while they blogged here.  I'll be sad to see them go, but I can't wait to read their new blog!  As some of you may know, this site has a history of spawning other great blogs.

The show must go on, of course, and with that I bring you the latest batch of blogs in my blogosphere diversity series.  As background, a couple of weeks ago, I posted a Blogosphere diversity open thread, requesting reader suggestions for blogs written by minorities or women.  I promised to write up the blogs submitted with a short synopsis, in order to encourage other readers to visit, link to, comment on, and generally shower blogosphere love upon, those bloggers.  I did so with the first half of the blogs last week.  Today, I bring you the latter half of those blogs.  Next week, I'll add other blogs which I missed in the initial round-up.

Without further ado, join me across the flip for the next installment in blogosphere diversity!  Feel free to submit your recommendations for female- and/or minority-powered blogs in the comments, and your thoughts about how this series can be improved in the future.

The blogs are listed in alphabetic order.  These include only the blogs which were recommended in the comments of my first blogosphere post within the first day or two; I missed a couple from that thread, but they'll be included in later reviews.

• The LCR Chronicle, written by a blogger named Lynne, focuses on national issues, particularly issues related to the GWOT.  The blog is pretty new (having started in April), and unfortunately, the blogging has been a little light lately, making a fuller evaluation somewhat difficult.  Hopefully Lynne will post more in the future.

• New Mexico FBIHOP is part of the 50-state blog network, and covers politics in New Mexico.  The blog has a pretty good balance of local politics combined with New Mexico-flavored national politics; the blog appears to be a big fan of Bill Richardson covers Bill Richardson extensively, and criticizes Republican members of the NM delegation.  From what I understand, the blog is largely powered by a Latino blogger, which reflects the fact that a good portion of the New Mexico's power structure (and indeed its entire population) is Latino.  The site appears to be powered by SoapBlox, so diaries and comments are allowed; if you're from New Mexico and you haven't yet started reading this blog, definitely check it out.

• South Side Star, "the original cyberlounge for politics and culture", and it makes good on that slogan, blending politics with a keen interest in music.  Pretty much all of the above-the-fold content is dedicated to saving Internet radio, and there's a playlist widget in the right sidebar.  Viqi French, the author, is a professional writer/publicity consultant who focuses on garnering media coverage.  Appropriate to its political/cultural blend, the blog both covers topics at the intersection of politics and culture (including the Obama stalker viral video and "Sicko", recently), and includes generous helpings of YouTube embeds and other graphics.  It all ties together to make fun reading, although you should be prepared for less text-density than you'll find on most political blogs.

• Texas Kaos is a local politics blog for Texas, run on the Soapblox platform and powered by a diverse array of women, Afro-American, GLBT, and Latino front-pagers.  There's a pretty nice regional and topical tagging system (which for my money is lacking on far too many blogs).  The site has an explicitly activist bent, with plenty of information about upcoming events and elections, and exhortations to get out the vote, attend a rally, and so on.  There's a pretty good share of the front page dedicated to national politics - but then, especially in Texas, all politics really is local.  Diary posters appear to be bumped to the front-page quite often, so this is a great site to participate in.

• Thaddeus Matthews is a striking example of a niche blog done extremely well.  Matthews focuses on local politics in Memphis, TN - more than that, he focuses on law-and-order issues, digging into police actions in great depth.  The posts are thick with comments, and from the density of Anonymous comments (commenters refer to one another as "Anon at 12:34", "Anon at 12:45", etc.), I get the feeling that there are a pretty good number of Memphis higher-ups reading the blog.  If you live in Memphis, or you're looking for an example of local blogging done with sharp and expert focus, check out this blog.

• VB Dems is the blog for the Virginia Beach Democratic Party, and features a couple of female front page bloggers (Eileen Levandoski and beachmom).  As you might expect, a lot of the content is specific to Virginia Beach politics, although there's some Virginia-flavored national politics mixed in as well; lately there's been some entertaining not-quite-political content as well.  This a solid blog worthy of attention from other local Democratic party committees, and of course from Virginia Beach denizens.

• Vivian Paige, a former City Treasurer candidate, maintains a blog to keep in touch with her supporters.  The blog focuses on Norfolk, VA politics, and "sprinkles in" regional, state, and national politics.  Lately the site has been focused on city council-level politics, with a fair amount of content also devoted to the recent VA primary contests.

• Washington Woman is a blog which focuses on "issues that affect women, children, society and the environment." The site appears to have been born out of sadness with the devestation caused by Hurricane Katrina - be sure to check out the seminal post, "The Power of One", which is about as good a way to start out a blog as I've ever seen.  The blogging was very light for a couple of years before picking up considerably in January; now the average seems to hover around 3 posts per month.  The site emphasizes war-and-peace issues and covers the ongoing neglect of New Orleans.  Certainly an interesting perspective.

• What About Our Daughters has a strong emphasis on standing up for black women - particularly, in fighting negative depictions of them in music.  The site vigorously attacks hip hop figures who propagate negative depictions; 50 Cent, Russell Simmons, and Akon (particularly Akon) have been recent targets.  While the site's focus includes other issues of interest to women of color - health issues, travel, etc. - misogyny in corporate hip hop certainly dominates.  This is a problem which should be addressed, and I mean yesterday, so kudos to What About Our Daughters for its laser-like focus.

• Women of Color Blog is a radical women of color feminist site, as explained in the comment policy.  It's got an international bent, with recent postings covering sexual violence in Australian aboriginal communities, Internet censorship in Thailand, a Palestine link roundup, evictions in Guatemala and the APPO strike in Oaxaca.  But there's a fair share of domestic concerns as well.  Brownfemipower (the pseudonymous author) is quite prolific - usually writing 3 or 4 posts a day - and there's a fair amount of commenting (most posts get a few comments, and some get 50 or more), so there's plenty to chew on here.

By the way, I'll be out for most of the day, so I might not get a chance to reply to comments right away. I will try to do so soon, though.