Based on a discussion in the Nonprofit Emerging Technology Exchange group, Sonny Cloward created a Bloglines account to track RSS feeds that might be of interest to nonprofit professionals. This account, nptech's Blogs, is collection of items organized by functional area. There's a section on communications, for example, or management. This set of feeds is being collaboratively managed (a group of people shares the user name and password and so adds feeds to the list).
So, why should you care about this? How can use it?
Rather than trying to find blogs and web feeds of interest by going to large, wholesale aggregators such as Technorati or Feedster, you can go to this bloglines account and view specific feeds within topic areas that might be of interest to you. Clicking on the feed name, in the left hand frame, shows the items, newest first, in the right hand frame.
Nice, eh, but not quite enough.
You can also export the OPML file -- in this instance a file that essentially names all of the feeds -- and import that file into the feedreader of your choice.
On the bottom of the left hand frame is a link that reads "Export Subscriptions." Simply right-click that link, choose "Save As" and put the resulting XML file in a place where you'll find it again.
When you are in the aggregator of your choice, you can import that file and feeds, along with the folder structure, will be pulled into your desktop.
Why do this and not just use that page to visit the links? Putting the feeds into your own aggregator allows you to keep track of what you've read and what you haven't. It allows gives you control of the subscriptions -- add and delete feeds, change the folder structure so that it is more relevant for you -- in a way that you can't do with the Bloglines account.