Wireless technology columnist Glenn Fleishman surveys recent articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and also talks to his own sources, about hotel wireless Internet access. The question customers are asking ourselves now, whether we travel for business or pleasure is, Why do high-end hotels often charge exorbitant fees for wireless Internet, when mid-range hotels and motels offer it free? And where does that make us more likely to stay?

Web designer Jeff Croft (who did some work for Navarik last year) responds to Jakob Nielsen’s list of top web design mistakes: “In my opinion, Mr. Nielsen would be much more usable […] if he’d just tell us what the problems are and let us professional, real-world web designers find the solutions.”

Scott Rosenberg of Salon: “But let’s just say that the whiff of bubble-mania that was in the air […] a year ago has now blossomed into a heady eau de dot-com. […] it seems likely that a certain number of people will get rich, a certain amount of money will be wasted, several important new companies and technologies will emerge and some indeterminate number of investors will be fleeced.”

A survey from The Economist reports that Vancouver, Navarik’s home town, is the world’s most desirable city in which to live.

Other cities in Canada, Australia, and Europe are also high on the list. The lowest-ranked cities were Port Moresby in New Guinea; Algiers; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Karachi; and Lagos.

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has listed his top 10 web design mistakes of 2005, continuing a list he has updated periodically since 1996.