Title: Nodeclipse Online Help - Markdown
npm Node.js Package Manager assumes that every project has file README.md. It is good practice to have this file, with minimal description of your project.
.md or .markdown are file with text in markdown format. Markdown is markup language, a superset of HTML, with focus on content authoring (not design).
Home page is http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Markdown is default on and ( see Github Flavored Markdown (GFM))