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Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He's tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-checking tools is worth a look.Photo by Charline Tetiyevsky.

Last week we asked you to share your favorite podcast manager and then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we're back to crown the winner and highlight the runners up.

Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to your computer (they're like newsreaders for media). Check out these five popular podcast managers and let the entertainment come to you.

Listening to podcasts is a great way to consume information, including everything from physics lectures to current events to old-time radio rebroadcasts. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for managing your podcast subscriptions.

If you're looking for a way to organize all the information you find and research you do online, and you've had enough with bookmarking, copying and pasting, and cobbled-together techniques not cutting it, Zotero is a comprehensive information manager for Firefox.

If you've ever noticed how Google will offer suggestions to complete your search query, you're seeing Google Suggest in action. Web Seer lets you pit Google Suggest against itself to see how many completions match up between search terms.If you type in "Why are dogs so" into the Google query box, Google Suggest will give you a list of the most popular completions for that query—as of this writing the most popular suggestion is "so loyal" for dogs and "so cute" for cats.

Ed. note: On Tuesday, Google responded to cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human-rights activists by ending search-result censorship in China. An anonymous reader with experience living where privacy isn't respected writes in with tips for keeping your data safe in these situations.

You'll find dozens of weather reporting services online, but all of them give you the weather in the traditional old sunny/cloudy/raining kind of way. None of them, however, will tell you if today will be as pleasant as Naboo.

If you're a fan of Netvibes, the popular personal start page, you'll be excited to hear they are rolling out a substantial upgrade, Netvibes Wasabi. We've got passes to get you to the head of the line.

The New York Times highlights a a report published by the University of California, San Diego claiming that the average American consumes 34GB of content and 100,000 words a day. How is that possible, you ask? It's all about bathing in the data.