* The second-annual Social Media Week is underway in five cities around the world.  If you’re reading this post from New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London, or Sao Palo, you still have time to register and attend one or several high-quality events between tonight and Friday.

* In making the case that Facebook could become the world’s leading news reader, Marshall Kirkpatrick includes and explains this nugget: “Partial feeds are good for readers.”  On Facebook? Agreed. In an RSS reader? No way.

* Marcel Santilli is a talented social media and design guy here in Austin whom I’ve just started working with on some visual projects for the Social Media Breakfast series. Using some of Callie Richmond’s brilliant shots from our event in Austin last week, Marcel put together a collage and video (also below). Great stuff!

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* Speaking of the Social Media Breakfast, the mega SMB during SXSW Interactive that I whispered about a few weeks ago is ON.  If you’ll be in Austin for “South by,” please mark down late morning/early afternoon of Sunday, February March 14. Venue, time, and program still to come.

* So the iPad won’t serve as the ultimate device for creating content. I’m OK with that. It’s still going to disrupt the heck out of how we consume media, and present “legendary” opportunities for sales and marketing. I can’t wait.

* Like Dan York, I’m stuck on the Foursquare fence. Yes, it’s fun having an ambient awareness of my social media pals and trying to unseat them as mayors (my current quest is to knock Terry Melle from his mayoral perch at Hill Country Bible Church Northwest). But … I don’t know that the gameplay is enduringly compelling (following “Bravolebrities” isn’t exactly my thing, for example). There has to be something more, right?

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