I’m subscribed to the IEEE Spectrum and Communications Of The ACM. Spectrum usually has a couple interesting articles, but Communications is usually rife with stale academic based articles – once every couple issues they have a gem.

I read these while commuting / traveling, and I keep my subscription because they send me free gifts every year. :)

I’m subscribed to a monthly computer magazine, but only because I get it for free through my union. I rarely ever read it, so they just tend to pile up. I suppose I still add to the statistics though…

I have a subscription to New Scientist… but now you’ve made me think about it, I might see if there’s an RSS feed for their online articles (same stuff as is in the paper copy, but with that fresh web smell…)

And I’ll pick up and read any newspaper I find lying around on the train to pass the time, but I recognise the fact that they’re full of fail even as I read them.

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My weekly magazine is called Humo.
It’s about the actuality, tv, radio and music. With a dose of humour, satirically or not. (sometimes even too satirically, it even got removed from the stores once -) )

I used to have a computer magazine as well, in my teenager years, but I also let the subscription expire because it didn’t interest me anymore.

I don’t read any paper-based content anymore except full books (of which I read a lot!) but I DO think there’s room for a computer/code/tech magazine, the content though would have to be less time-sensitive and more taxing – I imagine a quarterly filled with 8-12 in-depth high-quality articles covering areas people might not have looked at before. Examples of content might be things like: –

the ShoutCast server in LISP chapter from ‘Practical Common LISP’,

an intro to doing something funky with R (the stats language),

another covering refactoring a small but reasonably complex project from one paradigm to another (i.e. OOP -> functional, or the more traditional procedural -> OOP)

That sort of thing, articles that are going to take some commitment and time to get through but will reward that time with interesting new (and hopefully somewhat practical) knowledge. Personally speaking I would happily subscribe to the “Hacker’s Quarterly” if I knew that’s the kind of quality content I’d find.

My weekly magazine is called humo.be.
It’s about the actuality, tv, radio and music. With a dose of humour, satirically or not. (sometimes even too satirically, it even got removed from the stores once :-))

I used to have a computer magazine as well, in my teenager years, but I also let the subscription expire because it didn’t interest me anymore.

The only print media I read these days are fictional novels and the local newspaper. Everything else comes to me via Google Reader. I have an annoying habit now. If I come across a site without a news feed, I don’t think I’ll be returning. (Yes rpgcodex, I’m hinting at you!)

iPhone + HSPA + Google Reader is a winning combination for me. It’s my no. 1 toilet and travel activity.

I actually still read the local newspaper. I get most of my worldly news from the internet, but some of the local stuff just falls through the cracks (even though the local news outlets have web sites). I also get to do the puzzle section daily. I can’t stand doing crosswords online.

“That said, I do sometimes like to read paper based media.”

I am totally on board with this. I am one of the only people i know that prefers to read a reference book on a topic instead of searching for a tutorial or documentation on the web.

I used to subscribe to Kerrang (a british rock/metal music magazine) but a few years ago it started to move away from the music I am interested in (mostly Metal) to Emo and more popular sub-genres. I have considered subscribing to a Linux magazine (I saw one in a supermarket a few weeks ago although I forget which) or general computer magazine but at £5 – £10 an issue they are pricey and I get all the latest news online through my rss reader anyway.

You may have heard as well that Dr. Dobbs Journal published its last issue recently. I hear it was good back in the day. It focused less on news (which as you point out the Internet is far better suited for) and more on how to get your stuff done better and how to tackle hard programming problems. Unfortunately the culture of a few experts teaching people how to do things has been replaced to a large extent by wild mass guessing on the Internet, so DDJ in the modern era was more or less as full of fail as most other monthly rags.