A comment in the linked article states it plainly: if Kawasaki wished to encourage new, undiscovered designers he could easily have used his large network to identify and review portfolios. That would be either the honest method or the non-naive method of finding the designer that met his criteria. So really the question is, should I assume Kawasaki was naive?
Tell me the essential difference between what they do and what Guy Kawasaki has offered. No one is up in arms over what the guys at TRS are doing. They're in fact offering less than what Guy Kawasaki is offering. Much much less.
I'm not hurting financially by any means, though I have been wanting to create something for TRS just for fun and the possibility that they'll use it in their show. Likewise, I might actually submit something for Guy's book as well.
So I pose a simple question to you? Who are you to tell me that I shouldn't?