Can social bookmarking improve web search? (via Phil Bradley).

Journal of Computer Mediated-Communication: Special Issue: Social Networking Sites.  (via BoingBoing).

This month’s issue of Computers in Libraries has a couple of good articles on social software, too – one by Michael Stephens on setting up a social network via Facebook or Ning, and another on using a wiki to support a quick reference guide, by Tim Ribaric.