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The social-media obsessive defended his network's coverage in no uncertain terms when in front of the camears. "The story was reported every hour on CNN in some form or fashion," he said during a forceful on-air monologue (see attached clip).

But Sanchez was reportedly more revealing yesterday when speaking to fellow Twitter fans at a conference on the microblogging service, disclosing he'd written an email memo to superiors, prodding them to significantly expand their Iran coverage. Wrote one conference participant:

After his comments on the panel, Sanchez described to me and others how his email about #CNNFail on Twitter went up to the highest levels of the network. And, after the network's business, PR and marketing staff was pulled in, coverage the next day shifted...During the panel, Sanchez that "at no time did CNN drop the ball" - based upon his remarks following, however, I have to wonder whether there was an appreciation in the C-suite at CNN that the online backlash on Twitter was a hint that Amanpour reporting live from Tehran wasn't capturing the whole scene, and that US citizens were hungry for more information about what was happening on the streets and rooftaps of Iran.

The double-talk has already been noted on — where else — Twitter. Wrote NYU professor Jay Rosen, "Rick Sanchez told a different story to CNN viewers than he shared with participants" at the Twitter-fest. Sanchez's bragging about his clout at CNN would seem less duplicitous if only he'd posted it to Twitter himself; he'd hardly be the first journalist to use the service for naked self-promotion.

It's really a laughable patent. Most offices can't even reliably use the mature technology behind video conferences. So holograms, exponentially more complicated, should be yet another idea people won't be able to get working.

And, besides, the challenge is in the execution, not the conception. Patenting a holographic meeting is like patenting a flying car. Particularly when you skimp on the details:

The patent is rather vague on the actual hardware and software that would create these holographic meetings, although it does include 21 pictures and diagrams of how these meetings would take place.

Chalk this up as yet another indelible mark Bill Gates has left on his company. According to the Microsoft founder, we should all be enjoying computerized light fixtures and internet-connected ovens in our smart homes, where we carry around the tablet computers that have swept the market, and where we'll play with touch-sensitive tables made out of LCDs (if we can figure out how to set them up).

Luckily, Microsoft has a lucrative initial market ready to go this time around: cash-drenched cable-news networks, who are eager for ratings. Like CNN. As we all learned at election time, they love holograms.

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Twitter going down for scheduled maintenance during Sanchez's show, though? Everyone freak the fuck out! He's going to Facebook. He's going to MySpace. Somehow, we'll get through this disaster together.

Guest of a Guest noticed that once you start "following" Kutcher's Twitter account — signing up to receive the 140-character messages he posts on the microblogging service — it's impossible to drop him. A test verified the failure. Click on the "Remove" button, and you get an error message:

Reloading the page, as Twitter suggests, does not solve the problem.

CNN's @cnnbrk account, meanwhile, allows followers to drop it without any issue:

It's hard to imagine this was anything but a bug. But it calls into question the legitimacy of Kutcher's victory. Which is surely the worst possible outcome for anyone who viewed the race with a wearied sigh: Now the limelight-addicted blowhard is going to race someone to 2 million followers.

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Martha Stewart looked down on New Yorkers intimidated by snow, a group which includes home-bound Gawker editor Gabriel "I'm taking a snow day" Snyder. And then she got into a crazy Twitter conversation with Perez Hilton about cupcakes. Which is pretty much what she deserved.

CNET's Twitter beat reporter, Caroline McCarthy, lived up to Stewart's haughty expectations.

New York editrix Jessica Coen watched television in the middle of the day.

CNN's Rick Sanchez had an all-caps freakout over AIG.

Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl gave us a disturbing view of her larder and psyche.

Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please — or email us your favorite tweets.

Here's the latest goof:

Science takes on terror hunt
A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama bin Laden's location to three sites.

That's some innovative analysis! Yahoo's news producers join a long line of Obama-Osama flubbers. In January 2007, a CNN on-air graphic for a story about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the Al Qaeda founder, asked, "Where's Obama"? The network apologized.

During the campaign, Republican candidate Mitt Romney repeatedly confused Barack Obama's last name with Osama Bin Laden's first one. They rhyme, after all. Last April, AP board chairman Dean Singleton made the same mistake, referring to the hunt for "Obama Bin Laden," prompting a jocular rebuke by Obama.

Matching advertisement to the contents of a website is financial nirvana, right? Wrong. Computers keep getting the ads wrong, with results that would be hilarious were they not so offensive. Yes, an article about foreclosures might be read eagerly by people who want to refinance their mortgage. But a mortgage ad next to a story about a woman who shot herself while being dragged out of her foreclosed home by sheriffs' deputies? Click the image to see the full screenshot.

Current and Twitter's debate stream was interesting, but not new. Mashable and VentureBeat covered the launch of Sanchez's show three weeks ago, noting that CNN's arrival had forced Twitter's management to exempt Sanchez, like Robert Scoble, from their usual limit on the number of feeds one user could follow.

If you thought Current's lazy stream of debate tweets was hot, watch the above compilation of the always-slighty-overexuberant Sanchez: "My Twitterboard's about to explode." (Video by 23/6)

Some news organizations managed to interrupt the séance between the campaign and its supporters by finding out that Senator Joseph Biden would be the nominee and jumping the announcement by a few hours, after midnight on the East Coast. As soon as Senator Obama began calling the non-nominees, names began leaking out, and the New York Times, MSNBC and others ran stories saying that all signs pointed to Mr. Biden. It was a small victory, but one that served as a reminder that the press will not abide any old script the campaign puts out.

John King of CNN was first to confirm the news. “You knew that there was treasure buried out there and it was just a matter of going and finding it,” Mr. King said in the press area at the Pepsi Center. “They want to make the rules one way, and we say, ‘No, if there is a piece of information, it is our job to go and get it.’”

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• Tuesday night — Dupré began deleting connections between friends on Facebook.
• Wednesday morning — Timestamps and activity on her Facebook profile shows she was staying up all night cleaning up her profile and responding to critics.
• Late Wednesday night — At 3 a.m., there was an entry that she had completed a "thorough profile scrub," leaving only a couple of photos of herself on Facebook and a clip of one of her songs on MySpace. Friends posted on her MySpace page telling her to ignore the media, they would be there for her and to stay strong.
• Early Thursday morning — High school classmates created a group on Facebook. At 5 a.m., she confronted the classmates: "Do me a favor and don't try to cash out ... thanks," she wrote on Facebook.
• Later Thursday morning — Dupré Facebook status: "Sneaking out the back door," she wrote. The page had received more than 1,100 friend requests on Facebook. Later, she accepts many of them.
• By 2:30 p.m. the Facebook and MySpace profiles were gone.
• They reappeared Friday.

I have a great lifestyle because the dollars come in the same whether I work or not. So I only work when I see opportunity. My most productive time is in the morning from about 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. with a break just for breakfast. Then off to a nice lunch. Then usually some type of leisure activity. Then a couple of hours to relax. Then dinner. Then watch some nightly TV and off to bed.