Y’know, as old-fashioned as print media is, it still blows the socks off my feet. Getting my name in print in an internationally distributed magazine was still one of the biggest highlights of my life. All this stuff I do for CNET is fine and all, but there’s seriously nothing like getting a magazine in the mail and seeing your name in bold type on glossy paper.

This is why it makes me sad that many of my colleagues in the online world dismiss print media as old and dated. I understand there’s more freedom and timeliness with online publishing — heck, I’m still a pretty big advocate of Web 2.0 no matter how much I complain about it. Blogging is a great tool, due to the immediacy and transparency it allows. But I’m telling you, print is something special. There’s something so visceral about the full bleed designs in glorious CMYK with the words — MY words — filling up the page.

Yeah, I’m pretty stuck in the past. I admit that. The future lies in the bits and bytes of the digital screen. Blogs are the here and now. Who cares about dead trees and three-month-old content?

Sadly, I do. I’ll be right there, on the verge of new media taking over the old, fervently holding on to the remnants of the last magazine ever printed. And my heart will break a little bit, the tears will pool in my eyes, and I will eventually let go.