Hype Bites

Via "EventMe", I've just received an invitation to one of the Inaugural Balls, The Inaugural Purple Ball - honoring veterans.

EventMe is an interesting program - you sign up, tell them your interests, and when an event organizer hosts a party and wants to drive up attendance, they contact EventMe and they hit their lists. Private parties don't go to EventMe, nor do events that have "filled up".

So why is an inaugeral ball hitting Event Me unless the hype over Obama's inaugeration has frightened away folks. This Purple Ball is a pay-to-play event and ticket prices range from $300 a person to $5,000 a person. Ouch!

Between the hype and the bubble, somethings gonna give.