"Kevin writes a plea on Ev’s blog" - I often still think of Medium this way too. Though isn't Backchannel technically a Conde Nast joint now?

Kevin, do you get to eventually "own" the actual post after an embargo period? More journalists should be syndicating content in an IndieWeb-centric way like this, but still able to keep all the likes/comments after-the-fact for their portfolio. (Particularly when they do all the follow up commentary and respond to comments as well as you do.)