Start reading intellectual property blogs today

Robert J. Ambrogi, author of The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, recently compiled a listing of intellectual property blogs (registration required) in Law Technology News.

The listing is great for anyone interested in getting started with intellectual property blogs. To make it even easier to get started, I have compiled the listed blogs (minus one for which I couldn’t locate a feed) into an OPML file (a standard file type for sharing blog lists).

For an off-the-shelf, get-me-started-quickly approach to reading intellectual property blogs, do the following:

1. Download and install a news reader/aggregator. Make sure the program can import OPML files. I use and recommend FeedDemon from Bradbury Software.

2. Download this OPML file. Make sure you preserve the .opml file extension (your browser may want to save it as a pure .xml file — change this in the “save as…” dialog).

NOTE: As an alternative to downloading this file, you can simply point your reader/aggregator to the following URL during the importation process: http://www.promotetheprogress.com/files/IPBlawgs.opml

3. Import the OPML file into your reader/aggregator. In FeedDemon, choose File | Import OPML File…. Follow the importation instructions for your software. You’ll either need to navigate to the downloaded file, or enter the URL above.

4. Begin reading. You may have to mark posts as read and update the channels a few times to get up to date.

Welcome to IP Blawging!