The ecstatic labs platofrm is powered by Octopress 3.0.
Note: Octopress 3.0 is in development at https://github.com/octopress/octopress
Current posts can be edited in source/_posts
rake new_post
You will find your new post in source/_posts
rake preview
Then browse to http://localhost:4000
The first time you pull down this repo you will need to run this setup...
rake setup_github_pages
When prompted paste in the link to the gh-pages repo.
Finally to push changes into the live blog...
rake generate
rake deploy
This will push changes into the gh-pages on the EcstaticLabsBlog and site vistors will see the changes immediately.
Don't forget to push your changes into the source repo using git push origin.