Blogging with Fargo

This is perhaps slightly off track from previous entries, but then again perhaps not. I've recently been writing about using Byword as a convenient text editor for creating blog content so this is a continuation of that theme. The software that I'm using for the creation of this entry is actually web based and specifically is located at fargo.io. It uses a dropbox account for local content storage and then takes files created (in markdown if you like) as input into a javascript server running on your own machine. html files are then served up to the web via a host machine that's presently being run by Dave Winer who has created this software. I'm not sure if I've gotten those details precisely right but in the end it all seems to work smoothly. And it should also be noted that this online editing environment is also an outliner which is not surprising since Winer is also the creator of early outlining software for the Apple and the IBM PC. All very interesting, and just in the last couple of days Fargo has obtained the capability to download the complete contents of a WordPress blog via opml so we now have something of a two way transfer of data although I'm not quite sure how this is going to work out in practice. I'm not giving up my copy of MarsEdit just yet!