January was a black hole for me. No new relationships, not much time maintaining relationships, and some slipping…. on the blog front, I missed a number of interesting “events” in the social software world. Thank goodness for my network! What follow are the gleanings from a host of emails and chatter over the past month …

Judith Meskill has moved the social software commentary from her knowledge notes to a new site,The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com, which is just marvelous. She covers lots of newcomers in the software space, events, and everything that happened while I slept… give yourself time for a good read.