The News Desk
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Jose Antonio Vargas at Pandoland: Immigration in America is a farce
In recent years, journalist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur Jose Antonio Vargas has built a new extension on an already impressive career, with his personal immigration story and a keenness to have straightforward conversations about the issue as his basic materials. This morning that ongoing dialogue made a tour stop on stage at Pandoland in Nashville.
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From the mouth of a dead unicorn: Bradford Shellhammer talks about the last days of Fab and being enlightened
Bradford Shellhammer, the CEO and co-founder of e-commerce design site Bezar, was the perfect speaker to kick off day two of Pandoland 2015.
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Dennis Keohane
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Uber's drivers are employees, not "contractors": California labor commission ruling
Uber’s business model—skim profits off drivers, while avoiding the expenses that come with hiring drivers as employees—just suffered a major blow: the California labor commission has just ruled that Uber’s drivers are, in fact, employees, not contractors. Uber, which has seen its valuation soar to over $50 billion, can no longer claim that it is just a nifty little app that happens to pair up micro-entrepreneurial drivers and consumers, thereby avoiding the expenses and laws that other transportation and logistics companies have to bear.
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PANDOLAND DAY TWO (WOO!)
Pandoland 2015's second day is in full swing.
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Nathaniel Mott
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"Some big silver gay": Bradford Shellhammer and the importance of clothes
There are so many interviews I'm excited about doing at Pandoland this week, but to be honest Bradford Shellhammer is near the top. He opens up today's programming so make sure you're either here at Marathon Music Works or watching on the livestream.
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Sarah Lacy
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"Let the girls sing." Annie Bosko and Nashville's Song Suffragettes fight to bring gender equality to country music
“Trust me, I play great female records and we’ve got some right now; they’re just not the lettuce in our salad. The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females.” - Radio consultant/raging sexist Keith Hill.
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David Holmes
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The Cardinals probably didn't 'hack' the Astros, damn it
By now you've probably heard that the St. Louis Cardinals "hacked" into an internal network used by the Houston Astros to scout and recruit new players.
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Nathaniel Mott
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Techstars acquires Startup Weekend parent company UP Global
The very first tech event I attended was a Startup Weekend in Boston some number of years ago. It was an interesting experience, being able to watch hopeful entrepreneurs pitch what they thought could be the next big Internet company. Some ideas seemed like they could work; others, not so much.
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Dennis Keohane
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