David Holmes
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Past articles by David:
Pando: Steve Jobs: Jerk or genius?
A Valley pioneer weighs in on Sorkin's portrayal versus the real thing. → Read More
Pando: FICTION: The Devil You Know
A future-fiction horror story, exclusive to Pando. → Read More
Pando: MTV’s “White People” isn’t half as provocative as you think
There's a new favorite pastime for the Internet content complex -- a grotesquely efficient mutation of the "hot take" and the "thinkpiece” -- that takes shape when a writer feigns white-hot outrage at a film or television show without even seeing the work in question. Dr. Stacey Patton, writing at the Washington Post, crafted the ur-text of this movement when she labeled feminist comedian Amy… → Read More
Pando: More Americans consume news on Facebook than ever before. Uh oh
I hope you like polarizing discourse, factual inaccuracies, and poorly-sourced memes! → Read More
Pando: Founder Psychology: Spotify's Daniel Ek
How one of the nicest CEOs in the history of the Valley created such an asshole of a company → Read More
Pando: If Spotify convinces Washington to act against “unfair” Apple Music, guess who suffers most: Artists
Whenever two giant entities butt heads in the music industry, artists lose. → Read More
Pando: When a "safe space" goes wrong
Read this amazing open letter to a feminist discussion group. → Read More
Pando: Are Facebook’s algorithms killing YouTube?
Two of the biggest tech stories in 2015 are the increasing power of Facebook's algorithms and YouTube's uncertain future. → Read More
Pando: Social Justice Tourists: Amy Schumer, race, and social media's censorship of satire
The backlash against the popular comedian represents the worst of modern discourse in the digital age. → Read More
Pando: Trump doubles down on racism, so let's look at some numbers
Not only is Trump a despicable racist, he’s also flat-out wrong. → Read More
Pando: A new study flies in the face of everything we know about the music industry. Because it’s wrong
A new study tries, and fails, to prove that people totally want to pay for music. → Read More
Pando: Twitter, Microsoft, Reddit: Imagining Aaron Sorkin's next great tech screenplays
How would other classic tech tales look filtered through Sorkin’s wordplay-damaged worldview? → Read More
Pando: Sorry, Trump: Average Texans are 3 times more likely to have committed sex crimes than undocumented immigrants
The Right's statistics surrounding rape and immigrants are sorely lacking in context → Read More
Pando: No, we are not entering the age of the "hipsterpreneur." Thank God.
Yesterday's hipsters started bad bands, wore bad clothes, and thought all the better of themselves. Today they start bad companies. → Read More
Pando: The 10 best albums on Apple Music that aren’t on Spotify
Ten phenomenal albums, ten huge advantages for Apple over Spotify. And, no, Taylor Swift didn’t make the cut. → Read More
Pando: Algorithms are coming to Twitter: Here's how it can avoid becoming Facebook
Doomsayers are still calling the new Twitter a tragedy, I see it as an opportunity. → Read More
Pando: Major tech firms celebrate gay marriage, continue to fund anti-LGBT politicians
Google, Facebook, Oracle, Salesforce and others have supported candidates who oppose marriage equality. → Read More
Pando: Facebook finally told us what word made them ban our story about homelessness
After two days of arguing with robots about profanity, we're finally able to give Facebook our money. → Read More
Pando: Why Circa was doomed from the start
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: One of the most promising young companies of the new journalism revolution just ran out of money and closed its doors -- likely forever. → Read More
Pando: How to succeed in the music industry in three easy steps, with “music futurist” Ryan Leslie
An enormously instructive tale for aspiring creatives. → Read More