The Stanford Technology Ventures Program runs a well-developed incubator for tech businesses at Stanford University.

STVP offers some very cool resources free to the world. For example, I have been listening to their Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders audio podcast. The program brings in some of the greatest entrepreneurial forces in Silicon Valley today. Some of the speakers include

• Ron Conway (angel investor extraordinaire: Google, Facebook, etc)
• Mike Maples (angel: Digg, etc)
• Carly Fiorina (ceo: HP)
• Larry Page and Eric Schmidt (founders: Google)
• John Doerr (venture capitalist: Kleiner Perkins)

and so on.

While I was listening to Mike Maples and Ron Conway give their talks about angel investing, I had trouble following along and knowing who was saying what. I had subscribed to the talks through iTunes. When I visited the site, I noticed that they published videos as well, but in a Flash format, and not available as a podcast. I followed the videos much more easily.

So, in accordance with their fair use license, I decided to scrape the video metadata, download the video files, transcode them into an iPod-acceptable format, and republish them in a simple video podcast format. I now have scores of these talks in my iPhone and on my Mac Mini to view at my leisure.

Now, you can download them to your iPod, too. Just subscribe through iTunes or any other podcatcher.

P.S. I’ve open-sourced the code (AGPLv3), in case you ever want to make a podcast yourself.