Whiney G’s uber-provocative (and swear-laden) speech on the state of online music/music writing, delivered at the 140 Characters conference the other day.

Not to point too fine a point on it, but I do want to just mention that Whiney speaks about Hype Machine without much nuance (”Don’t Believe The Hype Machine!”), which I don’t think is really fair to Anthony and the rest of the Hype Machine team, who are all awesome, amazing, and talented people. They are unquestionably 100% genuine in their ideals– they are some of the most “real” people you will ever meet — and they work constantly to keep the system from being gamed, misused or abused.