links for 2009-11-25

• This week in media musings: A full reboot for news, and a rude run-in over paywalls | Mark Coddington
  (tags: journalism trends paywall paid-content)
• ClickTale Blog » Eye Tracking for Everyone
  By aggregating the mouse movements of hundreds visitors on a site, we create a comprehensive, visual representation of what visitors are looking at and focusing on within the page.
  (tags: eyetracking analytics tools to*read)
• Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik
  These new channels, twitter and facebook and youtube and tumblr and, yes, even blogs, are very distinct customer / participant experiences. Stale marketing or measurement thinking applied to them results in terribly sub optimal results for all involved.
  (tags: twitter analytics socialmedia)
• Paying for News: A Mega-Merger Thought Experiment – Boing Boing
  (tags: newspapers journalism business future paywall paid-content)
• After social networks, what next? | Media | guardian.co.uk
  Are social networks the internet's last big development? And how much will they change? A star panel in Oxford asks big questions
  (tags: socialmedia future trends conference)
• Type Porn – 20 websites for font, letter and symbol enthusiasts | Inspired Magazine
  (tags: typography inspiration resources)
• Conversation Agent: Growing and Monetizing News Media
  Is it possible? How can news media businesses both grow and monetize their online properties?
  (tags: journalism publishing printfuture monetizing news newssites)
• Stop designing websites, start designing posters « Boagworld
  A new generation of websites are emerging that look less like websites and more like posters. They are easy to use, visually engaging and most of all different.
  (tags: inspiration webdesign posters gallery)
• An Awesome CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery | Tutorialzine demo
  (tags: lightbox gallery jquery)
• Mingle WordPress Plugin — Blair Williams
  Mingle uses your standard WordPress website and standard WordPress theme to create profile pages, user friending, profile page posts, profile activities, social comments, email notifications (with privacy settings) and a full directory of members.
  (tags: wordpress socialnetworking plugin tools)
• Nettuts+
  Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
  (tags: blogging webdesign tutorials css html javascript php webdev howto)
• Guest comment: The seven sins of usability — Welcome to Netimperative.com
  Inconsistent and confusing site navigation – Difficult to scan content – Misidentified and unidentified links – Too much industry jargon – Hidden or absent contact information – Not allowing user browser control – Content that looks like advertising
  (tags: usability tips webdesign)
• jQuery and Google Maps Tutorial: #1 Basics: jQuery, Google Maps
  There are many times I want to leverage jQuery's strengths to create a custom Google Maps mashup. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment. I will assume nothing, and explain each piece in detail.
  (tags: jquery maps google tutorial basics javascript)
• pictoico
  Escape visual clutter, treat yourself with cleanest icons and pictograms: free download!
  (tags: icons free resources download)
• Face Your Fears: Why visitors really bounce from your site, part 1
  Bounce rate is the metric that makes many marketers wake up in a cold sweat. Many Research Partners are consumed (dare I say haunted?) by this metric.
  (tags: analytics bouncerate)