By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the news that Google will be shutting down their popular Google Reader RSS aggregator as part of their 2013 Spring Cleaning.  At Anvil we ... » Continue

Obviously the newspaper industry is struggling. Industry analysts, journalists and online marketers are frantically scrambling to come up with a smart solution to monetize content and compete with quick and ... » Continue

Ev Williams took the stage for todays SXSW keynote to discuss twitters newest change.  There were rumor abound that Tiwtter would finally announce an Ad Platform to generate non-search engine ... » Continue

Most newspapers use Twitter – if you are a newspaper and not on Twitter, your days are numbered anyway – and so for Follow Friday, Anvil reviewed some of the ... » Continue

This interview is a part of a series where Anvil focuses on the future of news.  Please read The Future Newspaper & Social News and join the discussion on Twitter ... » Continue

Social News: The Future of the Publication Industry Much has been written, and surely much more has been discussed about how to “save newspapers.”  Recommendations range from the recent (rehashed) push ... » Continue

Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in seed funding startups, recently released startups they would like to fund including a “New News”.  The partners of Y Combinator asked this year’s ... » Continue

A rash of articles have recently discussed how a big screen e-reader such as the soon-to-be launched Kindle has the potential to rescue/save newspapers because more people will be willing ... » Continue