Mike McCready

The other day I posted a video I made early last year as an attempt at making a video podcast that compares and contrasts Barcelona and New York. I spent a good deal of time making that video. It took a lot of scripting, filming, editing and dubbing. After I made that first installment I [...]

(text en català a continuació) Speaking of “hey look at me!” posts… early last year I thought I wanted to do a series of video podcasts that featured (rather, sort of compared and contrasted) Barcelona and New York. I go back and forth quite a bit so I thought I could get plenty of fresh footage [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable in [...]

In early November, just as the DotCat Song Blog was getting nearly 1000 unique visitors each day I had to stop updating it. I was just getting too overwhelmed and I needed to step back and get organized. Today, just in time for 2010 it’s back as the SongCat Blog (http://song.cat). Everyday we’ll post three songs. Site [...]

Remember that game show that wasn’t on US TV but that made a lot of news? You know, the one about winning “The Best Job In The World”, which was to be the caretaker of a beautiful Australian island and get paid about $120,000? Well, the guy who beat out 35,000 contestants and won [...]

In the November 2009’s issue of the BBC Focus Magazine you can read a 5 page feature article on Music Xray and how we’re helping labels and industry professionals find the best new music. down load the whole thing as a pdf and read it by clicking here It’s important to note that much of the [...]

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There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

This is scary stuff! I fly transatlantic all the time on Delta / Northwest. I take an Ambien and I sleep. I also wear earplugs. If the guy that tried to bring this plane down had been sitting next to me I probably would have slept right through it. I hate airports. I hate all the [...]

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.