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Each month we collect episodes from different podcasts about a certain subject. It’s easy: we collect the podcast episodes, you listen to our episodes or even subscribe to our playlist.  This feature for the month of April is about Earth Day, so we’ve collected different podcasts that celebrate the holiday: the lifestyle, the issues, the love for our planet. You can subscribe to our playlist here. Hope you enjoy this feature, and send an email to info at podcast.com if you have an episodes you’d like to add to this playlist.

You can find this and other features at my.podcast.com/features (make sure you click on the ‘View All Episodes’ icon in the middle of the screen to see every episode we collected).

Just making things easier around here — a few updates to a podcast page on Podcast.com:

• We’ve made it easier to subscribe to a podcast using Podcast.com. You can go to any podcast’s page on Podcast.com and click the ’subscribe now!’ button; if you are logged in to your Podcast.com account, the podcast will be added to your collection, and if you’re not logged in you will be prompted to do log in. Easy!
• We added a ’share podcast’ button that allows you to email a podcast you found to a friend.
• We’ve hidden a few of the advanced features found on a podcast page (permalink, Web link, RSS feed link, and the other subscription options) under the ’show advanced options’ button. We think putting fewer options in your face makes a podcast page easier to read.
• We added ‘log in’ links next to the ratings and tags, so you can log in to your account right there if you haven’t logged in yet.

We’re constantly working to make this site easier for you, so send an email to info at podcast.com if you have any other suggestions about these updates or any other updates you think we should make.

A “widget” is like a mini-website that you can add within your own personal website or blog. You can make a widget using podcasts from Podcast.com and put that widget on your Blogger.com blog or your self-hosted Wordpress site.

You start by logging in to Podcast.com, then create a widget using your collection of podcasts OR any collection of podcasts you find on our site — just click on the small image below the collection to get started. Read our FAQ for more instructions about how to add a Podcast.com widget to your site, and see a widget in action below.

We just finished tallying the Top 25 podcasts on Podcast.com for the month of March! Our Top 25 is representative of the podcasts you are listening to and watching on the Podcast.com website. We announced our first Top 25 podcasts for the month in February, and wouldn’t you know that over half of the Top 25 podcasts in March weren’t on February’s list. That means you like VARIETY, and there’s plenty of that on Podcast.com. Enough with the suspense: here’s the Top 25 for March, with the new entries into the Top 25 in bold letters:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast
2. CNN News Update
3. Open Source Sex
4. Dictionary.com Word Explorer
5. Midwest Teen Sex Show
6. BBC Global News
7. 60 Minutes Podcast
8. Sex is Fun
9. ABC World News (Enhanced Video)
10. Bob Edwards Weekend
11. NOVA (PBS)
12. BBC NewsPod
13. Lonely Planet Travelcasts
14. Sex with Devon
15. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast
16. New York Times Music Popcast
17. CNN Marketplace Update
18. Voices from the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
19. Geek News Central Podcast
20. NPR: Books Podcast
21. Comedy 365
22. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast
23. Boinkology
24. Filmspotting
25. Oroscopo di Leonardo.it

Looks like our hard work is paying off: Treedia Labs has been selected as one of the best 100 private companies in the Northeast U.S. by AlwaysOn, a media network that focuses on new business and technology.  We’re definitely proud to be in the Top 100, but that doesn’t mean we’ll stop working to make Podcast.com easier and more useful for you.  As always, if you have any suggestions for how to improve Podcast.com, click the Feedback link on our home page and let us know — and thanks for sticking with us.