Electricpig meets former Radio 1 presenter Colin Murray – and discovers a man who loves to talk tech. When he’s not reading Sports Illustrated on his iPad or hunting down obscure music on his Sonos, the BBC anchorman is streaming baseball to his laptop in the wee hours. Yet despite all that, he can’t stand Twitter. WTF, as they say…
I’m addicted to Sports Illustrated on the iPad – and not just the Swimsuit Edition…
The iPad is the gadget I use the most; websites are almost antiquated now. Apps and iPad magazines are just so much better. My favourite is Sports Illustrated – especially now I can just download it instead of having to go to the magazine store on Oxford Street. You can search for articles, look at the player stats and see some amazing videos and photos. And yes, I bought the swimsuit issue as soon as it came out…
Minidisc was a f**king joke. The record industry still doesn’t get digital music…
Mindisc? What a f**king joke that was. Why didn’t it work? Because it didn’t suit the consumer and it didn’t make it easier for them to enjoy music. The record industry still hasn’t got to grips with technology. It spends more and more money publicising bands to have a big debut album that just isn’t good enough. Imagine if Muse started now, would they have got a second album? I’m not sure. What about Oasis? Definitely Maybe only sold one copy for every four copies of Morning Glory. The way the music industry is struggling to make as much money as possible, you wonder if those bands would have survived.
I lasted one day on Twitter…
I tried it for a day. I tweeted something that was meant for my mates and it ended up in a newspaper – I didn’t realise it was going out to the general public. For me what’s great about Twitter is that it can be an information feed. What’s bad about Twitter is that it becomes a real-time Hello/Heat magazine.
I get up at 1am to stream live baseball (but my team is a disaster)…
I support the Toronto Blue Jays. We won back-to-back World Series’ before I even knew baseball existed, but we’re terrible now. I began supporting them when I worked on a newspaper called the Toronto Sun. I earned $180 a week, which ruled out restaurants, clubs and all but one strip joint (thank you, Zanzibar!). Baseball was the cheapest thing to go and see – $8 to watch the Blue Jays. Before I got BT’s super-fast broadband, it got to the stage where video would be rebuffering so much I’d give up. It streams perfectly now – but we still suck.
You can cocoon yourself in fame and believe that your farts don’t smell, but they do…
One of my favourite quotes ever was Ronnie Barker when he was asked what it was like to be famous (though I’m not in any way comparing myself to him). He said: ‘I don’t know what you mean by famous, that’s just not getting the bus’. It sums it up perfectly.
Colin Murray is working with BT to help you make the most of your broadband. BT Infinity is fibre optic broadband that allows you to do more online, all at the same time. The new Home Hub 3 uses Smart Wireless technology to give the most reliable wireless connection. Visit www.btlife.bt.com/infinityhowto for Colin’s guides to getting more from your broadband.
