Academic articles on social search and networking
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.