I enjoy playing with new permutations of the NPtech tagging project.  The latest one I've found, the NPTech Meta Feed, is based on a great concept, but it still needs a little debugging.

The feed was created by lazytom (whom I do not know) using FeedJumbler.  It draws on all the right sources, plus a few that are new to me:

• http://feeds.technorati.com/feed/posts/tag/nptech
• http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=nptech&format=rs...
• http://www.43things.com/rss/goals/tag?name=nptech
• http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/nptech
• http://www.tagsurf.com/rss/tag/nptech
• http://www.furl.net/members/rss.xml?topic=nptech
• http://upcoming.org/syndicate/tag/nptech/
• http://rss.jots.com/tags/nptech
• http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entries/tags/nptech?format=rss
• http://wists.com/everyone/nptech?out=rdf

What a terrific convenience - to be able to look in one place to monitor all the items that are being tagged as relevant to the field of nonprofit technology!

The only problem is that, as of this writing, it doesn't quite work.  I've dropped the RSS feed in the righthand column of my blog, and two sources (del.icio.us and TagSurf) currently provide only the message "Error reading source feed."  That's not good.

However, when the necessary trouble-shooting is complete, this should be a tremendous boon to those of us who aspire to be nonprofit technology pundits.
  

The title of this article is a take-off on a theme from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This article was originally published in my blog, "Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector," under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.