Information Research Weblog

(This message is re-posted on behalf of Chris McEvoy)

I used to think that IR was a mechanism that allowed my pocketPC to talk to my TabletPC, but now I know differently.

I have read a lot of the articles on IR, and have found them extremely useful. I work with a lot of people in the web field who have no idea about the wealth of knowledge, experience and information that exists, which they could use to great effect.

I am interested in tying to generate some cross- discipline communication, and am currently maintaing a site called Usability Views, on which I publish links to thousands of articles from areas ranging from usability testing to games design.

I have added all of the articles from IR, as well as the items from Tom Wilson's publications page.

The articles can be sorted by Popularity. This measures the number of pages that link to the article, so whilst it doesn't measure the number of times an article is read, it does give an indication of the popularity of the article.

The articles can also be sorted by Da te as well as T itle.

Do you think that this method of presentation has any value?