When my friend Valerie Margolis died after years with cancer, her parents held a memorial service at a Northern California park in a community center, where champagne was consumed in honor of the deceased, eulogistic speeches were read, and mourners filed by sign boards and tables covered with Valerie’s photos, awards, mementos, and writings in which much of the text was handwritten. However, the face-to-face commemoration also had a digital dimension. The service, like many weddings, was videotaped by several people, who could post the clips on the Internet. Some guests brought laptops and showed digital slideshows of Valerie from Burning Man and other contemporary countercultural happenings. Another mourner present at the service, Jenny Cool, had made a website shortly after Valerie’s death