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The big news today is the introduction of Yahoo!'s new Yahoo! Podcasts website. (podcasts.yahoo.com). The service offers directory browsing and searching for Podcasts, and you can download or listen online. The also show the most popular and highest rated podcasts to help you discover what's cool and interesting. This week's most popular was Ebert & Roeper Podcast.

If you haven't caught onto the Podcast craze yet, think of podcasts as a radio broadcast. Each show consists of a series of individual episodes that you can listen to how you want — on your PC, using your MP3 player, or with just a web browser. The traditional use of Podcasts is to download to your Apple iPod (well... or other mp3 player) and listen while you're in the car, jogging or working in the yard.