Full Circle Associates

I have just skimmed the report, but David Wilcox posts a fulsome review of Loader and Keeble's literature review of community informatics initiatives. I have shared David's past musings on the interface between academic and practitioners in this strange field called "Community Informatics," and "Virtual Community Informatics" (list here). I have some good friends who are researching in this field, but I always had this sort of side feeling of "hey, why do these guys keep having meetings in cool places? Why are they not working out in the field?" How do we do a better job at interfacing between the important academic work and the nitty gritty of practice?