The popular SitePoint author Matt Mickiewicz has interviewed Jakob Nielsen, the usability evangelist (or usability fetishist, depending upon your perspective), on AJAX (deemed “irrelevant”), contextual text links (described as “disgusting”) and other related web technologies.
The full article can be viewed here, and it’s well worth a read. Nielsen is as provocative and opinionated as ever, but he does make some very valid points.