The webbish are coming! the webbish are coming!

Alan Rusbridger, the Editor of the Guardian in Britain, made a speech to the Royal Society of the Arts in which he told a simple truth: that the web is better at a lot of things than newspapers are. Naturally, his speech was widely and completely blogged. You can read a summary of it here. Essentially, Rusbridger says that papers which pretend the internet doesn't exist (and which ones would those be, exactly?) will fall off a cliff. The Guardian may be able to say this because, of all the British papers (and a good many in North America) it was an early adopter of the new technology, starting its own blogs and online news aggregations.