Added to podcast directory list: Australian Podcasts is a directory that focuses on – you guessed it – Australian podcasts.

The site is community driven and offers tagging and community bookmarking.

ABC has published the first episodes of four prime-time television shows for on-demand downloading, including current episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias. The trial was announced in March.

Added to podcast directory index: Podcast Fusion is a new podcast directory site that offers registered users the ability to bookmark podcasts and manage them online.

Mac OS Rumors is reporting that the next release of Mac OS X, code name Leopard, will include a BitTorrent client.

BitTorrent support could be beneficial to podcasters, because it could reduce the cost of distribution of large media files by using the popular peer-to-peer file sharing network.

According to the report, Mac OS X 10.5 will include a system-level BitTorrent filesharing client that can be user-customized to donate upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users and delivering iTunes Store content.

Buzz-o-phone is a service that lets consumers share their opinion about a product, service, brand or company and have it podcasted.Users dial an 800 number, record their comments and the message is added to the site’s podcast.

How Buzz-o-phone works:

• Dial 1-800-591-5375
• Listen to the instructions
• Rant for up to 2 minutes
• Hang up

Comments can be listened to at the Buzz-o-phone site or via the Buzz-o-phone podcast.

Robotic vending machines from Zoom systems and others are appearing in some airports, hotels, malls and other high-traffic locations.

At the Hilton in Las Vegas there is an iPod vending machine that sells various iPod models and accessories. This home video shows how the iPod vending machine works.

The Ninja explains podcasting to people over the age of 12.

You can subscribe to the ninja’s podcast at http://askaninja.com.

Mainstream media is SO over Godcasting.

Sure, there are hundreds of podcasts about religion and spirituality. There are Christian podcasts, Buddhist podcasts, Mormon podcasts, new age podcasts, pagan podcasts, athiest podcasts and even a podcast about the occult.

They had their 15 minutes, and the mainstream media has moved on.

They’ve moved on to iPod porn, and it looks like they are going to stay there for a while.

a la mode, a developer of tools for real estate professionals, has announced a new service for its agent customers, Propertycast. The new services lets agents podcast information on homes for sale to customers with iPods, portable MP3 players, and personal computers.

“Podcasting has exploded because it delivers content automatically for ultimate consumer convenience,” said Rusty Lindquist, a la mode’s Vice President of Agent Products. “It’s the perfect medium for pushing listing information.”

With Propertycast technology, real estate professionals can record and distribute property descriptions as spoken audio files to home buyers and sellers using this new medium.

‚ÄúIt allows our customers to walk into a listing presentation confident they can market a property like no one else,” suggests Lindquist. “That‚Äôs something today‚Äôs increasingly tech-savvy home owners look for, and can be the tipping point to winning the listing.‚Äù

Adam Curry, former MTV vj and president of PodShow Inc., predicts that Apple’s release of iPods with video support will lead to a video podcast porn explosion.

“Porn is just going to be huge,” Curry commented in a recent Daily Source Code podcast.

Apple’s latest iPods include support for video playback, including video podcasts that can be made and distributed by anyone with an Internet connection.”

“The porn guys are just going holy moly in gratitude for the new market that’s opened up to them,” adds Curry.

In addition to adult podcasts and video podcasts gaining in popularity, Curry predicts that all types of media will soon be delivered via RSS feeds.