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Wednesday,  01/27/10  09:05 AM

Good morning!  Today is a BIG DAY.  We have Apple's announcement of their tablet (the iBook or whatever they're going to call it; stay tuned :) and later President Obama's State of the Union speech.  Which is more eagerly anticipated?  Ha!  I'll let you decide but I know what I am looking forward to more...

I must say both events have sparked a blogospheric frenzy of speculation.  One big change from offline to online news has been the advent of active pre-analysis.  An event is no longer judged by its relation to other events, it is now judged relative to the expectations which were set previously...