Web­stock Mini was last night, and for those that weren’t there: sor­ry. You missed out on a treat.

There was a room full of smart, cool, clever and pas­sion­ate peo­ple; a cou­ple of very inter­est­ing head­line speak­ers: Rod Drury on User Cen­tred Design as applied to both After­mail and Xero.com; and Peter Gut­mann on the ludi­crous but for real Copy­right Amend­ment Bill [PDF, 1.4Mb] (get sub­mit­ting — there’s a cou­ple days left); and lat­er, ten oth­ers for two min­utes each on “How the Inter­net changed my life”, inter­pret­ed rather loose­ly but very enter­tain­ing­ly.

We were there too: or more cor­rect­ly 40% of the Welling­ton­ista col­lec­tive (because you can’t be called a Welling­ton­ista and not belong to a col­lec­tive, right? It goes with the faux left-wing chic of our name, you know). And we had lots to think about. Espe­cial­ly the one of us that was speak­ing.

Oth­ers have already writ­ten about last night in a much more struc­tured way. Rather than rein­vent the wheel, we’ll link to them instead.

Phewf, that was easy. And a good use of the inter­net, too.

And then we’ll resort to namecheck­ing William Bur­roughs as a pathet­ic excuse for dump­ing the pooled thoughts of this 40% ran­dom­ly as fol­lows:

  • that’s a total of four peo­ple i’ve just met in the flesh that pre­vi­ous­ly i’d only had email or blog com­ment com­mu­ni­ca­tion with
  • did she just say that? a bit patro­n­is­ing eh?
  • all these love­ly peo­ple, and the fact that they ALL know and love the Welling­ton­ista — cool!
  • so geeky stuff can save lives
  • where are those zuc­chi­ni thingys? because frankly i nev­er knew veg­eta­bles could taste so yum­my
  • also, that ques­tion was TOTALLY a plant!
  • that’s good because real­ly i am yet at that pow­er wield­ing way but soon my friends soon *** i wish i was that excit­ed about what i do for a crust
  • and here’s a long lost acquain­tance
  • how would i do two min­utes on that… i know…
  • martha men­tioned me
  • was it just me or was EVERYONE talk­ing about Craft2.0? *** where are the sin­gle boys?
  • that Ben­net­t’s 4‑seasons beer is yum — i’ll get anoth­er
  • there’s the rea­son why light­ning strikes sev­er­al times in the same spot
  • you guys are like naughty school kids!
  • can we use that for the Welling­ton­ista accounts? where’s the beta signup?
  • how can you not love an open bar?
  • i feel so old now. i start­ed using the inter­net when she was four
  • and a flickr exhi­bi­tion on thurs­day night
  • yeah he’s a man, sort of
  • i love welling­ton

Don’t miss the next one.