If you’re looking for some interesting podcasts, you might try Stanford on iTunes. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and they’ve steadily been adding more and more content.

Using iTunes as a distribution platform is a great way to get content out onto the internet in a way that a lot of users are familiar with. However, there is one huge problem — it’s proprietary. Why is this a problem? Well, as Jon Udell notes, you can’t link directly to a file in the Stanford iTunes store (I tried, as suggested at the bottom of Jon’s post, to Right-Click -> Copy iTunes Music Store URL, but that command doesn’t seem to capture anything). And what’s even worse for people that don’t own an iPod, the Stanford audio files are encoded using Apple’s non-DRM .M4A file format. If you want to listen to these files away from your desktop, you’ve got to have a iPod or convert them to .MP3 (which is painful, but doable).

But even with the proprietary problems, there’s some great, free content available at Stanford on iTunes, so check it out.