Paul Conley has an inspiring call to independence for B2B professionals called All You Need Is Love that is relevant to all media workers:

Close observers of B2B media have seen two very different visions emerge of what it means to be in this business. First, there are the new voices — standalone journalists, bloggers and others who write because they feel passion for their subject.

Second, there are the new investors — private equity firms and leveraged-buyout specialists who look at B2B media as a series of "properties" and "products" that need to cut costs, grow revenue and then be resold again and again.

In the middle are the professionals of B2B — the editors, reporters, designers and other foot soldiers of our industry.

And to those people I say the following: It’s time to choose sides.