Thank you for the concern, but ZED is not dead. The developer did not sell anything, nor run away.
The truth is, there is a re-branding in motion and some of the new assets took some time to receive. Look for the ANN in the coming week.
-Kilo88
For a coin that's "not dead" there's been wonderfully little useful information of late. I can't find any live pools, which means solo mining... but it looks like people are playing games with the coin, given the large fluctuations in difficulty and the resulting longer-than-expected followed by shorter-than-expected block times. Best of luck to you, but this is definitely on my "do not mine" list!
zed.minecryptocoins.org is still live.
But there is problems with the difficulty, so without a KGW implementation, it's not really worth mining.
Plus it sounds like the needs to be a release to address heartbleed.
Zedcoin is definitely in need of some dev attention.