Print is dead. It isn’t dying. There is no chance of a resurrection. It’s done. Gone. Save the trees! Or is it? While many still believe that technology will save all, there’s still something that can be said about picking up a newspaper and reading long-form articles or books without the use of electricity (other than lighting in the room). While there may never be a need or ability for print media to make a full recovery, there will (likely) always be a need to chop down more trees and squeeze for squids for their ink. Thanks to our friends at GetSatisfaction, we can compare newspapers, magazines,…

Augmented Reality has been gaining popularity with the growth of smart phones throughout the world, and it appears that Coke Zero and Sausalitos, a german magazine, are willing to take advantage. They have, with the help of Junaio, an AR browser for Android and iPhone, created an intriguing way to create advertising for the 21st century. This is an interesting move when considering how downright depressing things have been for the print industry; age-old publications are dropping like flies on what seems to be a daily basis. What they need are new ways to generate interest from users and advertisers….

Games go social, computers go mobile, and communication goes online, but many newspapers and magazines still haven’t made the connection; Or as the old saying goes: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It hasn’t ever been more relevant than today when New Corp failed to convince many of its publishers that an online subscription-based newsstand was worth their while. Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp, is always on the hunt to find new ways to make people pay, even if that means pissing people off. The concept of an online subscription newsstand sounds like a fair middle ground;…

Alright internet, it’s confession time. I have a dark, disturbing secret for a geeky tech blogger. But I just have to let it out. Okay, ready? Here goes. I write for a magazine. No, not a ‘magazine-like website’. I mean one of those things that’s made by smearing ink on ground up sheets of dead trees. Yeah, those things. Because, to a lot of the tech world, it’s taken as truth that magazines are just backwards and obsolete and that they’ll be gone soon. And it’s a fact not lost on the makers of magazines themselves. In fact, they just launched a large advertising campaign to remind people of their worth….

Zinio, a company focused in digital publishing tech, has just released Zinio Reader 4, an Adobe AIR application that enables access to thousands of magazines — interactive magazines too, and National Geographic celebrates with a freebie. Zinio Reader 4 allows users to instantly access over 2,000 magazines by utilizing Adobe’s AIR framework. It is essentially a cloud-based digital library that will be synced to your devices. Users who install this application can pay once for a digital copy of a magazine, and it will instantly be available to the user for reading in its entirety on any platform…

When the iPad was initially announced, you could sum up a lot of the reaction with that common internet expression ‘meh’. Though the Apple hype train was in full effect, many people didn’t see what all the fuss was about, and it literally was only a few minutes after the keynote that the phrase ‘it’s just a big iPod Touch’ to be bandied about. But that started to change when people started to demo what magazines might look like on the iPad. Most prominent was the demo from tech taste-makers WIRED, whose vision of what an iPad magazine might look like was slick and promising. It featured an easy ‘swipe to…