As odd as it may sound, Twitter in many regards is a single point of failure in my network.  In other words, I have no real replacement for it.  Yet I rely upon it fairly heavily as a means of staying connected with people I respect, and whose opinions and expertise I trust – in some cases implicitly.  So when Twitter goes down – as it has right now – it’s a big deal.
In many cases I have no other way to get in contact with people – no email …

Please Note: This post relates to an Edublogs outage that took place in 2008, not the one from December 2009.
The last 24 hours have not been kind to Edublogs.org. James Farmer has indicated that over a period of 4 to 6 hours “a bug between the new forums features and caching caused quite a few blogs to time-out.”  This prevented some users from viewing their blogs.
[NB: My initial introduction indicated the outage lasted 24 hours.  Farmer has since clarified this is not the case.  Apologies for the misprint.]
This is …