I made Mardown-Powered SkyDrive-Hosted blogging platform a few weeks back.
All you had to do is claim a username/url (by navigating to it), login with SkyDrive and start adding markdown files to the "StratosPress" (name of the service) directory in SkyDrive. No need to manually sync/push/publish. Just save and as soon as the file gets synced, your blog post is updated.
Unfortunately, nobody seems to use SkyDrive. And even if they did, who would give a random guy on the internet access to all of their SkyDrive files. I know I wouldn't. Too bad there's no way to restrict file access to third-party services.
Silvrback looks alright, but it still seems a bit too bloated to my taste. I'm not sure why exactly.
This issue can be solved with Dropbox (you can make an app which doesn't have access to the rest of the files). See above for "my ideal blogging system", it's pretty much this. I may have to add support to my blogging system for this.
Something like that, I spent a few hours last night and added Dropbox integration to my blog, and it's fantastic. Much superior to online editing interfaces.
All you had to do is claim a username/url (by navigating to it), login with SkyDrive and start adding markdown files to the "StratosPress" (name of the service) directory in SkyDrive. No need to manually sync/push/publish. Just save and as soon as the file gets synced, your blog post is updated.
Unfortunately, nobody seems to use SkyDrive. And even if they did, who would give a random guy on the internet access to all of their SkyDrive files. I know I wouldn't. Too bad there's no way to restrict file access to third-party services.
Silvrback looks alright, but it still seems a bit too bloated to my taste. I'm not sure why exactly.