37 Signals goes down, so does my to-do list; light posting today at VentureBeat

37signals‘ site is down, meaning its users — mainly small organizations — are unable to access its popular set of web-based services, including project manager Basecamp, group chat Campfire and contact manager Highrise. For example, I have my list of people to contact and stories to write today within Highrise.

[Update: All 37signals services are back online, after being down for a couple of hours this morning.]

VentureBeat’s entire team was considering switching to Highrise, but this outage is a good reason not to. I’m putting the pieces of my scheduled articles together by sorting through my email. Got a hot story tip? Send it over.

Between this outage and Matt and the rest of us preparing for the Crunchies awards tonight expect lighter than normal posting today.

Screenshot of 37signal’s updates on the issue, below.

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