Markdown for Web writing

I started out with a love for Posterous but the glitches, as I encountered on this post, make it unusable.

Instead, see my Markdown example on Wordpress:

http://www.ihamilton.me/?p=43

In short, the beauty of Markdown is that it allows a mobile journalist or any web writer to produce content rich in links using a plain text writing syntax that requires only four additional characters to produce a link. And only one character to quote a paragraph. You can write on any platform but have rich HTML come out on the other side.

The plug in Wordpress is using is Markdown for WordPress and bbPress.