I’VE HAD TROUBLE REACHING A LOT OF SITES TODAY, and Oliver Willis emails that this fast-spreading Internet worm may be the reason. He says he can’t even reach his own site. I hope the first-class tech people at HostingMatters are on the ball; so far, InstaPundit seems fine.

If it goes down, don’t forget the backup at http://instabackup.blogspot.com. And those of you who run your own servers, well, be careful.

UPDATE: Dave Winer notes that blogs beat Big Media on this one.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Of course, if I’d bothered to check the support forum I would have seen that the geniuses at HostingMatters were already on top of it.