I’ve long bemoaned the dearth of original (commercial) content online, but it looks as though AOL might start doing just that in an effort to “creat[e] online communities around content.” Of course, it is an effort to create a more “sticky” AOL to drive up CPM rates, but still…

Meanwhile, Jonathan Dube’s CyberJournalist.net has teamed-up with The Media Center at the American Press Institute “to jointly encourage better online and multi-platform convergence journalism.”