A fantastic new service was highlighted on MetaFilter today: it's called Kwout. It's a service that allows you to capture a portion of a page and share it with others. It's very similar to creating a clipping out of a newspaper.

The service works like this:

1. You enter a URL into their Web site.
2. Their server goes out and gets a screen capture of the URL you entered.
3. Using your mouse you select the area of the screen capture you would like to clip out.
4. The area is highlighted in blue and then you click the "cut out" button to create your clipping.
5. A summary page is created which allows you to configure how the clip will be displayed.
6. A unique URL is also generated which allows you to link to the clipped image.

Here's my clipping:

Grey Bruce - Ontario, CA via kwout

Note: the links from the original Web site still work in the clipped version. Pretty neat, eh?