They paid $459 each to attend the dinner at New York’s Cipriani’s Wall Street – and they had already paid about half of that to even be considered for a nomination -- but the 500 or so nominees at the Webby Awards Monday night were not complaining.

The famous five-word acceptance speeches were mostly amusing. Dinner was served amid a loose, upbeat atmosphere, with attendees – a few in jeans -- table-hopping and congregating at the bar during breaks in the ceremony.

Hosting the evening for the second year in a row, Seth Meyers, head writer of “Saturday Night Live,” had some wickedly good lines, many making fun of the Webbys themselves. Kicking off the evening, he said, “If you like the Oscars but wish there were fewer celebrities and more awards, this is the night for you.”

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“Excessive texting” is the latest alarming teenage trend that the New York Times is onto. Readers have kept a story headlined “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” high on the Times' Most Read list for three days now.

If you’re looking for the kind of story newspaper editors love, you can never fail with the “crazy things the kids are up to now” genre. (Thursday’s “Hugging is out of control among teens” story makes this a banner week.) But they go even more nuts for a “technology is dangerous and threatens our very humanity” story -- and so the text-menace story is a double whammy.

Kids are sending a mind-boggling 80 text messages a day...

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.

We’d be so good together, the newspapers say. With your money and our incredible journalistic brains … who knows how far we could go!

We do like you an awful lot, replies Google -- you’re our partners! It’s just we don’t see it really as an owner-type relationship.

But we do have some advice for you -- which we tell you only because we like you so much. Those … articles you publish? We need to talk about those. You really should do something about them.

Maybe we can help you make them better -- more like the kinds of articles people want to read. That way, you’ll get more ads, and...

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."

Don’t click on that link! Don’t put it into your browser, either. It’s the latest “phishing” virus on Facebook.

TechCruch has the following statement from Facebook: 

“We’re well aware of this and are already blocking...