A new L.A. website

Matt Welch clicks on LA.com, the new city guide beta site from Gannett and Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, and finds it lacking. The team includes Lynda Keeler, a venture capital and strategy veteran who had been managing director of Redleaf, and most interestingly Laurie Pike, who apparently had a very short run -- call it one issue -- as editor of Distinction, the freebie upscale lifestyle mag from the L.A. Times ad department.