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I am a huge fan of podcasts and podcasting and one of my favorites to listen to each week is Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech (TWiT). Now and then, angel investor and Open Angel Forum founder Jason Calacanis is a guest on TWiT, and not long ago he launched a podcast network of his own borrowing the "This Week in" name (with Leo's blessing, of course). After success with his first podcast This Week in Startups (TWiSt) which Jason hosts himself, he is now creating a brand new podcast that is a perfect resource for startups and entrepreneurs: This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC).

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Skip the lecture, download the podcast. That's probably not what university professors tell their students, but perhaps they should. New psychological research conducted by Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, shows that students who only listened to podcasts of lectures achieved substantially higher exam results than those who attended class in person.

Managing your podcast subscriptions on the iPhone and iPod touch while on the go and without having access to your computer is not exactly an enjoyable experience. Last year, Apple rejected Alex Sokirynsky's Podcaster from the App Store because it duplicated "the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes." Now, however, Podcaster has returned to the App Store as RssPlayer (iTunes link), which brings back most of Podcaster's features, though with some frustrating concessions to Apple's iPhone SDK.