The people complaining about blogs getting inflated page ranks on Google seem to be the professional journalists who just provide bland impersonal writing without any substance. There is value to that, but why shouldn't blogs get good ranking on a search engine.
The Internet is about two-way communication and blogs help that and have made the initial effort and costs of publishing to go way down. They have brought a large amount of *good* content to a world of media where you get fed the same thing everyday from a faceless broadcasting monolith.
Blogs are valuable resources and will only get bigger. There is nothing inherently different about a blog besides it being an easy way for an individual or group to publish their own content. The Internet was initially created as a two-way medium, and only now is that trend starting to become visible. We should not hinder it.
Couldn't agree with you more. Sometime I get more interesting news from the blogs than I could get from CNN or NYTimes.