"Well be selecting an extra this Friday afternoon and flying the selectee and a guest to LA this coming Monday, May 14th - all expenses paid. Or, most expenses anyway - flight and hotel for two nights." The blog added: "The more you tweet and share, the more chance you have to be cast so, tweet and share early and often."

The "tweet to win" and Facebook "Like to win" phenomenon is huge. It seems so rampant I'm not sure anyone cares. Ethics aside, one thing for sure this trend raises the noise level of spam on Facebook and Twitter. Try googling "tweet to win" or "facebook like to win" or "comment to win" for a sampling of how to turn your tweets and thumbs into prizes.

Basically, it's not a great idea to accept "free" trips or gifts from companies. Though the two bloggers from India were given an opportunity by Samsung that they might have otherwise never been able to afford, it's hard to imagine that, even if they had been allowed to attend as independent bloggers, they would have been able to stay neutral about Samsung products and/or Samsung competitors.

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(PCWorld's Tom Spring contributed to this report)