Blogging for both personal and journalistic use has become a booming subset of technology in recent years. This is no secret, as many writers on iTech Post started off blogging, some about sports, others about music or technology. The amount of blogs and content on the Web is staggering. One group of European innovators is trying to make the process of organization and content creation a little bit simpler, through a platform called Ghost.
By allowing users to organize, manage and promote their content in one simple application, blogging could grow with great ease. One of the unique aspects of Ghost is the ability to operate on dual publishing screens. As you write out your draft and notes on the left-hand side of the screen, the published preview will already begin to appear on the right.
The Ghost platform proposed on Kickstarter has already almost doubled its initial goal of 25,000 euros. Its founder, John O'Nolan, has been building websites using WordPress for close to a decade. By using the Ghost application, both casual and intensive bloggers can integrate their content from other websites into one system. For example, if you post an article via the Ghost platform, it will appear on your Wordpress, Tumblr, Facebook or any other blogging site you indicate. What application users integrate will be based on demand, though O'Nolan believes that WordPress will be the primary initial focus.
The project still has 27 days left to continue crowd-sourcing the new application. According to the Kickstarter, the Ghost application, "Node.js application powered by the Express framework. Ghost ships with SQLITE, which means it can run pretty much anywhere - however everything is connected through JugglingDB ORM, adding future support for many other database formats. Ghost will be available via NPM, making it extremely simple (and fast!) to install on all major environments."
Early reviews for the project have been overwhelmingly positive, with Forbes noting that if the project succeeds "content innovation may return to the form of disruptive conversation."
