2009

• IQ — “Frequency”
• Porcupine Tree — “The Incident”
• Transatlantic — “The Whirlwind”
• Dream Theater — “Black Clouds and Silver Linings”
• Blackfield — “Blackfield NYC” (CD release)
• OSI — “Blood”
• Riverside — “Anno Domini High Definition”
• Glass Hammer — “Three Cheers for the Broken-Hearted”
• Knight Area — “Realm of Shadows”

2008

• Frost* — “Experiments in Mass Appeal”
• Ayreon — “01011001″
• Steven Wilson — “Insurgentes”
• The Pineapple Thief — “Tightly Unwound”
• Demians — “Building an Empire”
• The Tangent — “Not as Good as the Book”

Enjoy!

Florida Today: Research center opening

Florida Today: Our views: New research center aids cyber wars fight

http://media.fit.edu/load.php?clipid=3276

My previous talk at FIT is also online.

The site has the same audio sample from the radio ready to play on demand and links to purchase the music (purchases made through the site support NPR).

From the brief clip I heard on Friday I though they were playing the song “Harmony Korine” from Steven Wilson’s upcoming album, Insurgentes. A visit to the site confirmed it! Not only is it a great song, but the album hasn’t even been released yet (a digital version is available if you preorder, but the physical CD doesn’t come out until late February). Insurgentes is the first solo album from Steven Wilson. His other projects include Porcupine Tree and Blackfield.

Watch out for the surprise ending…

While this type of information is available to anyone who has access to the IP addresses of those that visit a site, I thought it was interesting enough to share these locations. The service appears to do a decent job at filtering out the IP addresses of known spiders and other automated agents, leaving behind mostly legitimate hits.

Many of my former colleagues from MLAB at FAU have been traveling abroad this summer, to places such as China (Beijing), Malaysia, Austria, Brazil (Curitiba), and Colombia. Hits from all of these locations show up. The largest concentration of hits is in the vicinity of Phoenix, AZ, although I’m not quite sure why (perhaps there’s an ISP based there that isn’t being filtered yet?).

It’s interesting to contrast the new ClustrMaps with the Guestmap I’ve had on my site for over six years (a link to the Guestmap is just below ClustrMaps in the sidebar). I only recently moved the Guestmap to the front page — it was previously buried on the About page. Unfortunately, the Guestmap only retains the most recent 100 entries, so many have been deleted. The Guestmap asks users to manually select their location and add an entry — only a fraction of visitors will do this. An example of a more modern implementation is Frappr.