Obtaining podcasts without using iTunes, how?

Solution 1:

Podcast Alley lets you search for podcasts and provides you with the feeds.

Solution 2:

Tunesviewer will let you search, browse, and download iTunes podcasts.

TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access itunes-university media and podcasts in Linux.

Features:

• Direct searching, browsing, and downloading.
• Supports itunes-University login, to download students-and-staff-only media.
• Reveals the standard rss-podcast-feed of the itunes-podcasts, for use in any podcast software.
• Includes the option to set itself as default protocol handler, to go directly from the "loading itunes-U..." page to viewing with TunesViewer.