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The name is unfortunate, Scribble is also the name of Racket's documentation tool[1] (which can be used for the same kind of purpose: writing prose and publishing it).

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

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Indeed, when I click here, I was expecting a nice presentation of it. scribble is actually quite a nice little markup language.

The "simple markdown" part of the title did not ruin the surprise?

I imagine both these teams were well aware that using a dictionary word like that for a product name would inevitably lead to name conflicts.

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