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I see what you're doing there. You're going for the anti-marketing dollar.[1]

[1] RIP Bill Hicks

Accommodative input is the future. Period. We will eventually have technology which allows us to adapt content to the human receiver. This is not in dispute. Presentation and interaction methods which use these techniques well will dominate over those that don't. [snipped the rest as a service to humanity]

You're in marketing, aren't you?

http://sennoma.net/main/edits/Hicks.html

I can't imagine people not wanting to see ads that are focused on their interests.

To show me ads that are focused on my interests, advertisers would have to know what my interests are. I don't want sociopathic corporations to know what my interests are, thank you very much.

And it doesn't matter if they knew me only as "consumer 38234585" and somehow couldn't connect that with my real identity: the purpose of their targeting ads is to influence my behavior, to attempt to manipulate me.

As the late great Bill Hicks put it, "By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

I didn't know about this either, but a commenter below posted this link: http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2007/12/if_it_wont_sink_in_maybe_we_ca.php .
It claims that Open Access Journals charge less than other journals, so that presumably means that authors are charged for the publishing.

The only alternative is to publish in open access journals, which is fine in principle. However, for a cash-strapped lab, it can be hard to pay open access fees for several articles a year, even with NIH funding.

You're in luck. As it turns out, Open Access journals are actually cheaper to publish in for the authors than for-profit journals, with most of them charging no author fees at all:
http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2007/12/if_it_wont_sink_in_maybe_we_ca.php

And that is before you factor in that Open Access journals that do require a fee usually have very lenient fee waivers for anybody who can't pay whatever fee they're asking.

So if economy and prudent use of your grant money is a consideration they you should choose open-access journals over for-profit ones.

Suber's overview of the scene (there's an rss feed somewhere in there too)
- another blog
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Repositories
The "Open Knowledge" Definition
And Wikipedia has lots of text on the subject.

This one, you mean? Yeah, he really does have a point. Cecil Adams once called it "the twilight world of marketing."

And it depends on the kind of salesperson. Bill Hicks said it best...

Hey cool, they give mod points to astroturfers now! That's SURE to up the quality of dialogue here on /. Hey PR flaks, take Bill Hicks' advice and go kill yourself.

If I'm gonna get marked flamebait, you ARE gonna see some flames...

This here's a must-read if you haven't read it yet... Bill Hicks's rant on marketing.

http://sennoma.net/main/edits/Hicks.html

This is how it starts... "By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself."

It only gets better.