Gigaom has some fascinating (well, for us bloggers, anyway) news about Jaques Vallee's passion for blogs. He is also known as the father of the internet .

Weblogs are a new form of that and I think this is what the network’s real purpose. Weblogs are much more practical than websites and people can interact. They will have a big impact on journalism and politics.

Vallee’s views are counter to many other so called experts who believe that weblogs are adding clutter to the Internet, breakdown Google and basically reducing the value of the institutional media. He believes that weblogs play a major role in this campaign, because it is the only way to find out how a particular politician thinks and reacts on an issue.

A 10-second quote on CNN does not make sense and the folks want to react to the information they get. Politicians who are in tune with this are more realistic. Howard Dean has used it effectively and I think politicians cannot hide behind press releases and press relations officers anymore.

This is interesting. To us it is obvious that blogs are a new medium that can do what websites and other forms of online communication cannot, i.e. individuality, personality and credibility. Blogs can also be many things to many people and that is one of the reason of continuing debate about the importance and impact of blogs on areas that are either ignorant of them or adversely affected by the emergence of blogging. These are interesting times in the blogosphere and may they long continue to be so.

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