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188. Clearscape or Headleft?

Posted in Podcast on: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 by Paul Boag

On this week’s show, Richard Rutter, Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd join myself and Marcus for a round table discussion.

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Every once in a while it is good to do something different. This show is one of those occasions.

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This week Andy, Richard and Jeremy from Clearleft came to the Barn to hang out with Headscape. While they were there we decided to record a podcast.

The show is largely unscripted and it seemed unfair to ask our team of volunteers to transcribe an hour long 5 way conversation! As a result, I am afraid we are lacking our normal show notes. I hope you understand.

That said, I can tell you we covered the following topics:

  • The differences between the working practices of and Headscape
  • The beginnings of the two companies
  • The pros and cons of being a total service company like Headscape or specialising like Clearleft
  • The importance of in what we do
  • Deciding when to adopt new innovations
  • Whether locations affects success
  • Our plans for the

We really hope you enjoy the show and we would love to hear your thoughts on the subjects discussed. Please make use of the comments below.

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Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

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