Topix.Net - "Are blog posts news?"

While the argument of whether bloggers are journalists continues, Topix.Net has added blogs to its news search engine. From the Topix.Net Blog:

"Today we added 15,000 top weblogs to the Topix.net crawling/tagging engine. Blog posts are being categorized into our 30,000 local feeds as well as our 300,000 subject feeds. Our search results now include blog results, and posts should show up on our site and search index within 1-3 minutes of being crawled."

The post also shares some eye-opening numbers on their studies comparing Mainstream Media and Blogs.

Many of our Neighbor Blogs (Iowa) use Topix to crawl for news stories. Will we soon see Blog for Iowa, Drew Miller, or Iowa Voice among those results?

The initial release of this strategy stopped at 15,000 blogs, but they are accepting submissions if you think you're blog should be included.

"If we're not crawling and indexing your blog, we'd love to know about it. Please use this form to submit your feed for inclusion in our index."

From a business view, I like the idea for many reasons. But what about from a blogger's view? I'm not sure whether I'll be submitting my blog - but I don't comment on "news" much. Will you be submitting your blog? And why (or why not)?