The real question is whether Hertzberg will be as present and responsive online as he promised to be back in April when he launched his blog:
I’m incredibly excited about the chance to have a running dialogue about what we can do to get LA moving again and hear your thoughts and concerns. I hope this site will become a “must-read” forum for new ideas about what we can do to make LA a truly great city.
It's one thing to launch a blog and proclaim brotherhood with everyone in Los Angeles via the Web.
It's another thing entirely to maintain it, and engage and respond to the community there - and then persuade them - amid the likely flames, false accusations, hacking attempts, and spam - to vote for you.
In any case, it looks as though Jim Hahn and Bernard Parks' web crews will need to sprint to catch up.
Well, turns out I was wrong. Parks does indeed have a Web site online with a last-updated date in the footer of June 17. The sad thing is, it doesn't turn up (as of this hour, 9 a.m. Tuesday) in Google searches on either his name or the phrase "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=bernard+parks+mayor&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&start=30&sa=N'>bernard parks mayor."
Councilman - just a hint : you might want to put your full name into the homepage title.
In any case, the Parks site contains:
Several pages including his bio page showing nothing more than blinking "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" gifs;
A collection of news releases and questionably reprinted L.A. Business Journal articles having nothing to do with Parks;
an empty photo gallery;
an empty "supporters" page; and
A printable campaign contribution form
Looks as though Parks' webmaster may already have been putting in some late hours - the Staff page blinks on and off so fast you can't quite read who's running this show.
