PageBreak Podcast | A book review podcast for designers, freelancers, and other nerds

Pagebreak is an audio podcast hosted by Liz Andrade and Niki Brown. Join us every Tuesday for a discussion on books (in our monthly 20 - 50 minute Book Shows) or blog posts (in our weekly 5 - 20 minute Snippets) that pertain to Freelance, Design, Development, Marketing and other such things.

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Snippet 41: SEO For Non-Dicks

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Episode 4: Speak Human

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It’s Episode #4 and we read Speak Human: Outmarket the Big Guys by Getting Personal by Erik Karjaluoto.

Random shout outs to Renee Swigert (@RibbonsofRed) and Von Glitschka(@Vonster.)

Von, if you weren’t a geek in high school — we apologize! :)

Tangents on Supreme Court rulings, Happy hour cocktail specials, The Library of Congress archiving Tweets and Tattoos. (Leave a comment and let Niki know what you think of her getting a plaid tattoo!)

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Episode 3: Don’t Make Me Think

Book Cover for Steve Krug's 2nd Edition of Dont Make Me Think

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It’s Episode 3 and our book is Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug.

We get a little off subject a couple times, but hopefully you find our tangents about cat science, moms on the internet  and organizing your code amusing.

We do discuss the book though! This is a must have for any web designer that has sold over 300,000 copies (according to Steve Krug’s website.)

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Episode 1: Rework

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You can listen to the show here, but we’d love for everyone to subscribe to the show in iTunes, thanks for listening! :)

It’s our first shot at podcasting and we’re talking about “Rework” by 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Niki was really good with calling out the page numbers on quotes she referenced, but not-so-much for me, so here are all the quotations we pulled and their page numbers for you…

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