Toys For The Rich To Cultivate Product Popularity

ChipGuy writes "Newsweek is reporting on a new elitist club called the Silicon Valley 100, an exclusive group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andressen, Esther Dyson, Chris Shipley, and Ross Mayfield. The Schwag Set will get a lot of free stuff which they will either recommend or not, to unsuspecting masses. Dan Gillmor thinks 'it is oddly creepy', and urges people on this list to 'bow out of this exercise entirely.' Om Malik says it ironic that 'the first product being offered is a shitter! What Crap!'"

Comments

I don't read blogs very often,

[JDevers]

but do most of them contain grammer this horrific? The linked article read more like a stream of consciousness e-mail (a poorly written one at that) than a published piece of literature.

Re:What's wrong with the crapper?

[sulli]

The Washlet has been arond for ages. How the fuck do these guys come off advertising it as something new?

Happens all the time in other circles

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

The entertainment elite are constantly given free stuff in the hope that their wearing/using/talking about it will promote the product.

It's a truism in hollywood that nobody will give a dime to struggling actors who could really use a hand, but once they make it big and don't need anything from anyone, they are practically buried in freebies - free clothes, free cars, free tickets, free jewelry, free beer, you name it they get it all for free.