Cutest headlines:

5. Skype Service Outage Silences Subscribers - Katherine Noyes. If she had just swapped "shutdown" for "outage", Katherine would have scored a 5-point alliteration. I'm quoted (accurately!) in her report.

4. Can you hear me now? On Skype, possibly not - Dwight

3. Skype hangs up on users - The Register

2. Skype Announces SkypeOutage Limited Calling Plan - John Paczkowski

and the winner...

1. You fool, I said we wanted to see more SkypeOut headlines - Good Morning Silicon Valley

We're still hearing from people with brief connections, the Skype client reporting 52k-200k users online, ability to reach echo123 (Skype's test account).

Again, if you want to connect:

• +1-510-206-1138 mobile
• IRC #skype channel on Freenode using the free Chatzilla
• skype:evanwolf