Open Culture

... is "your guide to smart media":

Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place. Trust us, you’ll find engaging content here that will keep you learning and sharp. And you will find it much more efficiently than if you spend your time searching with Google, Yahoo or iTunes.

Here's a nice list of "Free Online Courses from Great Universities", organized by subject, you can download as podcasts.

LibriVox: Free audiobooks

LibriVox promotes the "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain":

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

They recently celebrated the release of their 1,000th audio book. Recent releases include Karl Marx's "Wage-Labour and Capital" and Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Digital Campus

... is "A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums."

Finding and managing podcasts

Library Clips lists the many sites that will help.

Medical podcasts from Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins broadcasts a free, weekly health and medicine podcast, 5 to seven minutes long, advertised as "a lively discussion of the week’s medical news and how it may affect you."

ESRI Podcasts

If you're interested in mapping you may want to check out ESRI's podcasts from its conference this summer in San Diego. They include sessions on environmental and business mapping. ESRI makes ArcGIS, the GIS mapping software most used by journalists.

NPR on how some newspapers are turning to podcasting.

"ONLINE is written for information professionals and provides articles, product reviews, case studies, evaluation, and informed opinion about selecting, using, and managing electronic information products, plus industry and professional information about online database systems, CD-ROM, and the Internet." The editor also has a blog.

"The Writer's Almanac®, a daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor, can be heard each day on public radio stations throughout the country." It has an online archive where you can listen to entries back to 2001.

Steve Outing of PoynterOnline has written an article "designed to help publishers and editors understand citizen journalism and how it might be incorporated into their Web sites and legacy media." Legacy media - gotta love the dismissive tone of that phrase.