Scriborium

I write a column. So do you, probably, or you wouldn't be here. And if you write one that runs in more than one place, you already know the part nobody warns you about: the writing is the easy bit. The hard bit is everything around it. You finish a piece and send it to the newspaper. A slightly different version goes to the trade publication, because their house style hates your semicolons. A third version lives on your own site, posted a week later so you don't annoy anyone. Somewhere in there an aggregator picks it up, and you're fairly sure you said yes to that, but you'd have to go digging through email to be certain. Then someone asks, "Can I reprint the one about X?" and you have to work out whether you still own it. Did the rights revert? When? Which version were they even asking for? You go looking, and the answer is in four places at once, none of them talking to each other. Tha