Fred Wilson's Top Stories

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1. Edward Snowden Q&A: Dick Cheney traitor charge is 'the highest honor'

   guardian.co.uk ❘ Shared by vruz, Danny Sullivan and 3 others

   Ed Snowden, I thank you for your brave service to our country. Some skepticism exists about certain of your claims, including this: I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal...

   

2. Why Publishers Should Ban Slideshows

   digiday.com ❘ Shared by PEG, Danny Sullivan and 2 others

   Chris Johanesen is vp of product for Buzzfeed “Slideshow” has become a dirty word on the Web, and with good reason. Here’s why Buzzfeed will never have slideshows and what that means in the media industry. Before Buzzfeed was a media company, we...

   

3. Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20

   techcrunch.com ❘ Shared by JD Lasica, Stocktwits and 2 others

   We’ve been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely. On June 20, a source says...

   

4. All journalism is advocacy (or it isn't)

   buzzmachine.com ❘ Shared by Michael Arrington, Jeff Jarvis and 1 other

   Jay Rosen wrote a insightful post forking the practice of journalism into “politics: none” (that is, traditional American journalism: objective, it thinks) and “politics: some” (that is, the kind just practiced by Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian)....

   

5. Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists

   marco.org ❘ Shared by Vibhu Norby, Cory Smith and 1 other

   June 17, 2013 • ∞http://www.marco.org/2013/06/17/app-store-top-lists • At the bottom of my recent post on App Store pricing, I ended a three-paragraph footnote1 with this: Abolishing the “top” lists from all App Store interfaces and exclusively...