Just on a whim, I told them about my article on free software game development that was released under a CC license and asked if they might be interested in reprinting it. I doubt they will, but that is one nice thing about CC vs. traditional copyright! Actually, they wouldn't even need my permission to do it, but perhaps my offering the piece myself might move them.

It might be that the editors would like to guide you in a revision. Offering to revise acknowledges the ways in which editors and their review process are an integral part of the texts that they publish. After all, a willingness to revise for another venue is not indicated in the CC license :)

Yes, I specifically told them I would "revisit" the article. The way I look at it, my "price" for publishing it there would be that they help me improve it.

They haven't responded, yet. It's a bit early to tell, but chances are they're going to pass on it. :-(

Cool. I think that's the sell that most people need to think about with CC licensed texts. Maybe at somepoint it'll be common to have significantly different revised versions of text, all CC licensed, published in different venues. That is, perhaps because CC licensing allows anyone to revise, it may create a market for encouraging the original author to republish a revised version (in other words, a new definitive version). Or maybe I'm just babbling.

Well, I could easily imagine someone "stripmining" articles or using chunks of them in new articles. With CC, there would be no fear of a publisher coming after you for that practice. So, I might take an old article -- say my "Videogame in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," and copy/paste useful bits into the Hackers article, tailor the whole thing with a slightly different slant (or other material), and viola, a new article. It'd be even more interesting to take chunks from other authors releasing under CC. The old CC would even let you sign away attribution, so it really would be interesting to see what'd happen if people could copy/paste together new articles from old ones and stick their name on it.

Or if you had someone offering extended commentary on an article online that was excellent, an editor could hire them to do the new version :)

Well, I got a response back from the guys there, and I'm happy to say they're thrilled about my work and really eager for me to contribute. They don't seem interested in reprinting my old articles (understandably; they've received plenty of attention from their audience already), so they want me to write some new ones. I was impressed that the editor actually read my Hackers article and found a neat new angle I could take that I started exploring there as an aside.

After that really unpleasant debacle over at Armchair Arcade, I'm glad to have some new guys that seem to want to work with me. I feel I have really good contributions to make, and maybe these guys and I can do something really wonderful that just wasn't possible at my old haunt.