Start reading the top IP law blogs in less than five minutes
One of the areas of interest to me as a concerned liberal is the area of intellectual property–I am concerned about copyright extension and the erosion of the public domain, I’m concerned about software patents and the stifiling of innovation, and I’m perhaps most generally concerned about the way our various governments seem to put the short term economic good of the large corporate entities ahead of the rarely mentioned “public good”.
So naturally, when I read that the kids over at Promote The Progress were making available an OPML file of the best Intellectual Property legal blogs, I hopped on over an grabbed it. You will likely soon start seeing some posts arising for things I’ve read on the sites they include–it’ll be nice to get more than just Lessig‘s thoughts on some of this stuff.
If you don’t know how to use an OPML file, they also have some simple instructions on importing it into your aggregator. If you don’t know what an aggregator is… well, if you know me personally you can email me and I’ll walk you through it, otherwise you need to spend some time with Mr. Google.
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January 4th, 2005 at 11:46 am
BTW, what are you using as your reader du jour? I started looking for a non-.NET reader, but a number of the more robust looking free ones, like rssOwl (and several others I found on SF) all use IE under the covers. Bastiches. Thinreader looks like the winner so far, at least that I’ve found.
OPML looks interesting, not only for RSS, but for bookmarks.
January 4th, 2005 at 1:56 pm
I am using the Omea Reader from Jet Brains (they guys who make IntelliJ).
It’s a commercial product, but they are giving away free lifetime keys for the next couple of months while they bring it to market.
You should try it–I bet it does a lot of the management you want.
http://www.jetbrains.com/omea_reader/
Of course I am also looking into putting a server-side aggregator up on my web host, so that I get the benefits of Bloglines, etc, without needing to be dependant on a service from someone else. There might be a post in that sometime soon.