Podcasts are a method of publishing audio programs via the internet. The client, you in this case, would subscribe to a feed, and as soon as the latest audio program was uploaded by the creator, your podcast aggregator would automatically download it. Being usually of an .mp3 format, you can transfer this to a digital audio player of your choosing or burn it to cd just like any other .mp3 track. This phenomenon really caught on towards the end of 2004 and has grown from a handful of feeds to thousands of them.
Podcasts have become so popular, that iTunes has built-in support right out of the "box". In my opinion, it's much easier to navigate and subsribe using iTunes than other aggregators. But, in case you want to keep your options open, you can check out other applications here.
Within that list is the iTunes software which I recommend for its sheer simplicity to subscribe, download, and listen to podcasts.
Here are a few of my favorites (mostly tech talk):
Diggnation
This Week In Tech
The Daily Source Code (with Adam Curry)
Again, there are plenty of topics to choose from. There are some directories to browse if you haven't downloaded iTunes yet; Podcast.net and iPodder.org are both good sources. You'll definitely find something that interests you among these choices.
So get to downloading and take a listen while enjoying what is proving to be the future of audio broadcasts.
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