Yeah, I know that gPodder already has a logo. But after listening to the recent interview on Linux Outlaws 67, I figured it might be a nice creative exercise to come up with something anyway. Not most people’s idea of a fun evening, but it relaxes me after a stressful day of engineering work.
Anyway, I think what I came up with looks kinda neat. But I think it’s too complicated and fiddly to work as a logo or icon, and unless you want to have gPodder wallpaper (hey - whatever floats your boat) it’s likely one of those images that serves no purpose at all… except giving me something to de-stress over. 
[UPDATE: Late last night after a little more fiddling, I made the same modification as raydancer made in the comments to this post and shortened the horizontal stroke of the “G”, making it look more like a “G” and less like an “E”. The revised one is below.]
Well, that is just completely fantastic. I listened to the same show twice or more as I often do and although the existing logo is cute, the founder and I agree that it didn’t exactly say pod-catcher. I saw your doodle and thought… hmmm…the data comes in … whirs around my drive a bit …and is reassembled and saved “down” to my hard drive. Nice! Yea, you definitely transformed the actions into a really good visualization of what all these pod-catcher thingies do. Pretty cool IMHO.
Reminds me of those first home slot car sets that I just loved all my childhood too, which is another bonus.
The logo looks great, Richard, though I’d suggest extending the little colored bits into the “G”. At first glance the “G” looked like a lower-case “e”.
@Jonas - Thanks. Glad you liked it. I though of the slot car racing set too come to think of it.
@raydancer - you are clever. I actually did a rework late last night doing exactly what you suggested. Unfortunately I forgot to save it to my Dropbox folder so I can’t post the updated version until later tonight. It does definitely help in making the ‘G’ look less like an ‘e’. Thanks for the input.