Hi, I just moderated this post, since I missed the last couple regarding syndication - firstly - thanks for using my design away skin - I really like people's interpretation on it.. and you've put in alot more content which is great.
Two sites I can direct you to when it comes to podcasting and syndication -
Scott Shecter - http://www.scottschecter.net - great developer, clean, neat and responsive and I suppose that when he asked me to first look at his module and I gave him some feedback, he was very responsive and has made some great updates to the module and I downloaded last week and installed on my 3.2.2 version but apparently his 4 version does more.
Then, I thought I'd explore the Orozonti products http://www.orizonti.com/ -they were interesting - it allows you to syndicate but in a different way- if you have several different pages on your site with podcasts and syndicated information, it's more like a little aggregator - it allows you to put in feeds from different pages, specify how many you want displayed and how long, etc and is also a nice choice for syndicating information.
I know that Scott has spent alot of time on providing his module's scalability - in reference to site that aggregate podcasts and syndications - like atomz, and I think it does video, allows for categorisation, images to go with the podcasts, editing, a few more things to make it slightly more refined.
Both seemed to be quite good products from reputable developers, and each has a cost - so I guess the decision really is yours.
I hope this gives you further scope to the products as well.
Nina Meiers