In the story of the brinksmanship going on between the New York Times management and the Boston Newspaper Guild -- the largest union at the Boston Globe -- there’s one point that never fails to jolt me every time I see it mentioned.

The Webby Award winners were announced Tuesday -- with a healthy serving of celebrity names represented in the awards, which are given out in a whopping135 categories.

A new site called Flicktweets has just launched, produced by the Movie Review Query Engine. It collects real-time tweets about movies onto one page.

At the moment, “Wolverine” is topping the tweets, with such tiny jewels of insight as @albertkiko’s: “I saw X-Men Origins Wolverine! I think it was a good film based on the fictional Marvel comics!”

This weekend produced two must-see viral videos: footage from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, featuring separate clips of Barack Obama and Wanda Sykes cracking up the press corp, and a new "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch with Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg called “Motherlover,” which follows up

Dan Baum has concluded his account -- published entirely on Twitter in 140-character bites -- of how he won, then lost, a writing contract at the New Yorker.

"Blah Girls," the animated web series from Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst company, is debuting Wednesday night in its new role as part of the CBS entertainment news show “The Insider.” “Blah Girls” episodes will be one-minute “interstitials,” introducing CBS audiences to the three frisky, often outré teenage cartoon-girls named Krystle, Tiffany and Britney, who trade celebrity gossip and chase celebs.

A Poltergeist was loose on the Web Thursday morning.

At 8:40 Eastern time, Google search crashed and was not back up until a little over an hour later. Google Calendar and Gmail were affected as well.

So, your Gmail was down, and you went to Facebook to send some messages to friends. You had a note in your Inbox from a pal, subject line, “Hello.” Inside was just the domain name "151.im."

Sunday night, a 4.7 earthquake here in L.A. Then Monday morning, a shaken-up news landscape.

Today the world gets to see the first issue of a new Newsweek -- revamped by editor John Meacham and his team to try to be less of a populist sprawl over the week’s news, more in tune with a smaller, more educated, upscale audience. The goal is to be choosier, tighter, smarter and celebrity-free.

It’s becoming almost poignant, the dance between slick, friendly, but withholding Google and those slightly shabby, lovelorn newspapers, who want so badly for this relationship to work out.

Is Twitter turning on the very celebrities that have made the little, revenue-free web company into an outsized cultural and business-world presence?