Guardian.co.uk adds ‘clippings’ bookmarking feature
March 18th, 2008Posted by Oliver Luft in Newspapers, Online Journalism
UPDATE: GOOD POST HERE BY PAUL BRADSHAW ON WHY HE THINKS THIS IS ANTI-SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
Guardian.co.uk has added a bookmarking feature to that allows users to ‘clip’ stories they have read on the site and create profile pages so that others can read their recommended stories.
The clippings file allows readers to store links to articles and other content for later reference and also export the whole lot as an RSS feed.
Users can clip an article by clicking the scissor icon that has been add to the tool bar.
As an example, Guardian director of digital content Emily Bell published her clippings on the site.
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