YEs- it's all over the internet. If you go here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497077/posts
and read the last 50-75 posts you'll find some pertinent info. I was thinking (hint-hint) that one of our geeks might start a thread for this...it's pretty important.
Being a non-geek I can only gather that Roadrunner is having some issues with Cogent and Leavel 3...that have yet to be worked out- this is the result.
Blogger had some planned maintenance between 5 pm and 7 pm Pacific. For the first part of that time, individual BlogSpot blogs were still available, but the blogger.com interface wasn't. Somewhere around 6 pm PDT, the entire thing went down, and stayed down a bit longer than planned.
Democrats say it's Dick Cheney's fault.