1. NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks (Washington Post)
2. A guide to Syria’s best citizen journalism (The New Republic)
3. Why Foursquare’s new feature makes a Google takeover offer even more likely (GigaOm)
4. If you use WordPress, you can have tweetable sentences like in the New York Times SNL story (Nieman Lab)
5. Esquire’s pay wall experiment (Folio)
6. Troubles ahead for Internet advertising (NYT)