About podcasting

Podcasting lets you enjoy Internet audio on the go -- so long as you have an iPod or other portable digital music player. You can also listen to them on your computer or even through your TiVo. Subscribe to a podcast RSS feed and new episodes are downloaded automatically.

Once you've downloaded a podcast, it's yours to enjoy at your convenience.

Current SeattlePI.com podcasts

Opinion Leaders
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board interviews opinion leaders and newsmakers about current events in this occasional series.

Art Thiel Talks Sports
Sports columnist Art Thiel chats about the top sports stories of the week with KPLU-FM's on-air hosts. (This segment is produced by KPLU-FM.)

On Food with Hsiao-Ching Chou (on hiatus until 2007)
Our resident foodie explores cooking, eating and thinking about food through conversations with locally and nationally known culinary professionals.

Hardware/software requirements

If you're not enjoying podcasts yet, here's what you need to start:

• iTunes or another program for managing audio files that has built-in podcast support; or
• A podcast-aware RSS aggregator such as iPodder, iPodderX, FeedDemon, Doppler, jPodder or SharpReader
• A portable music player such as an iPod (optional, really)