PS3 Outage (outrage)?

OK, so I am not sure if you guys heard, but there was an outage for people with the phat ps3. Evidently, if you had the older ps3, Sony recommended not to go online, play games, or otherwise turn the unit on for at least 24 hours. I just checked the "official ps3 blog" at http://blog.us.playstation.com/ , and the problem was not even on the first page. It was really glossed over, as early adopters who bought the ps3, before the slim, had about 2 days of not being able, or not recommended to use their ps3. There was not much info about it, as most likely it was embarrassing to Sony as this is their new cash cow. At the very least Sony, you owe us a free game on the PSN, a free blu ray, or something. I mean seriously, I could not do anything. "It only does nothing (for like two days)."