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I am in love with the latest brand new song of Coldplay, Violet Hill. It is downloadable for free till next tuesday. Hurry up and go to Coldplay official site to have it!

Anyway You could play it from Coldplay Myspace profile.

Enjoy!

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow, white snow
Clearly I remember from the window
They were watching while we froze
Down below

When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You better lie low
If you love me, won’t you let me know

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog became God
Priests clutched onto bibles
I went out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft
Bury me in honor/armor
When I’m dead and hit the ground
Legs are cold, unfolds
And If you love me, won’t you let me know

I don’t wanna be a soldier
With a captain of some sinking ship
With snow
Far below
So, if you love me, why’d you let me go

I took my love down to Violet Hill
There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still
So, if you love me, won’t you let me know
If you love me won’t you let me know

I have been writing some weeks ago that April would be a busy busy month and it was

Last week I was the chairman of a round table inside Veneto Expo event. It was about “New enterpreneurship and global markets for digital media” and we had a live video link with a California panel. It has been an exciting experience and a good challenge to improve my english.

Everything has been recorded and You can watch it online, thanks to Gigi Cogo.

WATCH: New enterpreneurship and global markets for digital media.

I am proud to be a member of the jury of a European startup competition. I am talking about Startup 2.0.

Please submit your startup before May 10th and You could be voted to be in the final 10 event in Barcelona.

READ: Startup 2.0.

Good news today! Fouad Al-Farhan, the Saudi top blogger in prison since 137 days ago is now free.

His wife sent the message to some other bloggers this morning at 5.30 local time.

Michael Ramirez won a Pultizer prize this year. He deserved it.

Two weeks without updates are too long, I know. I am sorry but I am so busy that I cannot update more than this blog

April is a difficult month full of events, business meetings, new consulting and much more.

Last week I was in Perugia to take part in a wonderful event, The International Journalism Festival where I met a lot of smart people. Next week I’ll be in Luxembourg for business, in Rome for education, in Venice for a conference and in Vallelunga for a race with bloggers.

At the end of this month I should go to London to attend a global event by Motorola.

In the mean time I should work for old and new customers. It is not easy but it is really exciting.

I have no words to explain this song. Just listen to it.

I have started to work as a full time freelance social media consultant since june 2007. It is not easy to address different customers, to keep all my blogs updated (they are a sort of business card for me) and to manage my personal business ( I am also a local politician for the Green party in my town Senigallia).

I need to focus my attention doing less thing and I decided to try to apply some of the tips learned reading 4-Hour Work Week, a book You should read.

I’ll try to start aggregating most of my digital identities and properties in a new personal/professional blog on my personal domain lucaconti.it. I would like to use it as a real business card with many updates from the projects and clients I work for (Rai, Dol, BuzzParadise and some others coming next).

One result will be that I’ll blog less and less about personal stuff like politics, reading, movie, music, news but more about lessons learned working in the social media arena. I’ll be pretty busy during next weeks as I have been since last months but I promise: before summer season this blog will change a lot.

I’ll keep You… posted

Interesting and inspiring presentation.