I am very sorry to hear of Brenda's passing and appreciate Naomi conveying the sad news to this group. Brenda was a keynoter at the second Internet Research conference, and a major figure in the origins of this field. Brenda was -- and still is -- ahead of her time. She was a major inspiration to me in many ways. The first paper I ever wrote about the internet (in 1991) was presented on a panel she organized at the American Folklore Society, and it was she who urged me to publish the work. There are many things to appreciate about her scholarship. One was her keen sense of the importance of history in understanding the internet. For instance, when she wrote about graphic play in IRC, she connected it to folkloric graphic phenomena centuries old for ten times the insight. Maybe 100 times the insight. When everyone seemed to be comparing online interaction to face-to-face communication, she was among the first to articulate its relationship to writing, ponder the potential loss of the aura of the book, and note that email bore many resemblances to mail delivery in nineteenth century London. When most people were (are still) focused on the English language internet, with Susan Herring, she encouraged and collected work about "the multilingual internet" that has been extremely helpful in globalizing our field. Methodologically, she exemplified how to conduct excellent qualitative research. Perhaps best of all, as David Silver once said of her, she "put the funky back in internet research." If you haven't read her book Cyberpl@y, you must. She was also a kind and gracious woman. Her voice in our conversations will be missed. Nancy