Upgrading to the latest version of iTunes will get you easy access to managing your podcast subscriptions through the iTunes interface. It’s a great idea though frankly, I just don’t have time to listen to podcasts all that frequently. My commute is about 3 minutes by car, 6 by bike and 20 by foot. And now that it’s africahot all the time now, i haven’t been walking to work as much. That being said, i know a lot of the WB readers do have a commute or have the ability to listen to audio while they do their work so it might be worth checking out. Al Franken’s podcasts from Air America are available. I’m sure additional interesting podcasts will make their way up there soon. The service is still a bit buggy and not up to Apple’s usual user experience standards. Perhaps that’s because they don’t own the entire stack from content to delivery. They’ll learn. They have to, it’s what separates them from alternative operating systems.
Because podcasting is based on RSS which is near and dear to my interests, i was curious to check on how Apple extended the RSS spec to make it integrate more tightly with iTunes and I’m a bit dissapointed. You can read some details over at usefulinc.com. Also, folks have already started to exploit the functionality a bit to make it possible to do one-click subscription to podcasts via iTunes from any site.