"The TypePad application is back up, and users can now log in. We've begun the process of republishing user's blogs. As we noted in our last post, if your blog is out of date and needs to be republished, you can do that yourself inside TypePad by visiting the Design tab for your weblog, and clicking the "Republish Weblog" button," writes Michael Sippey on the Six Apart blog.
"We want you to know that your blog data is safe. We have no reason to believe that any of your posts, comments, TrackBacks, photos or files have been lost."
Comment: It's always worth being reminded that online applications can go down without much warning and that, as a user, usually there's nothing you can do about it.
USA Today's blogs seem to have had particular problems. Last week there was a note on the site that said: "Due to problems with the our provider, Six Apart, USATODAY.com's blogs are currently down. Thank you for your patience during this outage. The blogs will return as soon as possible." It's still there, but they seem to be working at the moment.
