Blogrolling has become a major syndicator of blog items throughout the web, giving individual blogs the ability to tell thousands of others when they've written something new.

The Blogrolling "updating" service was on the fritz for three or four days, and returned a little while ago.

CD Harris:

You never realize how dependent you become on something until it stops working. But I now know that I have become totally dependent on blogrolling's recently updated function over the last year. I'm much relieved it seems to be working properly again!

Justagirlintheworld has some thoughts, as well, including how the folks who run Blogrolling handled the job of letting their customers know the bad news. (Which is to say, they didn't.)

Services like Blogrolling's now qualify under the heading of "disruptive technology" - seeing as how many people rely on it every day. Let's just hope there's a little less, um, disruption from now on...