Scotsman's website an embarrassing flop

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Scotsman's website an embarrassing flop

I thought I might be alone in noting that The Scotsman's revamped

website is far worse than its predecessor. Evidently not. Readers have

vanished. And here's the (admittedly parti pris) view of the site's

former editor, Kirkpatrick , recorded on his blog:

" I knew the new ston Press redesign was, to put it very, very,

mildly, unworthy to lick the boots of the 2001-2007 model. I also knew

that traffic would tank.

" I warned Tim Bowdler, the JP chief executive, of this face to face

saying the JP redesign would lose 'millions of page views and hundreds

of thousands of users'. My warning was ignored and a JP apparatchik

later explained that I had not understood how good their plans were.

" Well, we can finally see how good their plans were...

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