T4WA nominees: Wellingtonian’s Contribution to the Internet

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the res­ults at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

As a web­site, we know that we are not alone. There are many oth­er fant­ast­ic people in Wel­ling­ton doing fant­ast­ic things online, and they make our inter­net world a much bet­ter place with the things that they do.

Web­stock: It’s now a must-attend event for any­one work­ing on or with the web in New Zea­l­and (and bey­ond). The Web­stock crew are pas­sion­ate about find the very best speak­ers from NZ and around the world and bring­ing them to Wel­ling­ton each year to share everything they know. The event is so well man­aged that past speak­ers have been known to attempt to bribe organ­isers in hopes of return­ing to this mar­velous event. For a week in Feb­ru­ary, the city is flooded with extremely tal­en­ted good-look­ing weblebrit­ies, and it reminds us why we love what we do. Plus Web­stock also organ­ise a rather fun quiz night which we are extremely fond of!

Nath­alie Hof­steede for Givealittle.co.nz: Givealittle exists to make good things hap­pen. Natalie’s pas­sion for doing good has cre­ated a web­site that makes it easy to do like­wise. You can donate to exist­ing causes or cre­ate your own pro­ject. To see Nat­alie speak about Givealittle is truly inspir­ing, and that is why we salute her and the work she does.

Rob­bie Ellis: Man­ners Mall Emo Song (AKA Buslane Through My Heart) After deb­ut­ing his com­edy ode to Man­ners Mall at Fringe Bar, per­former Rob­bie Ellis uploaded a video of the emo-style song on You­Tube and it went vir­al. The song appealed to pro and anti Man­ners Mall sup­port­ers alike, and was eagerly blogged and retweeted. After all, some­times we all want to cut ourselves like the bus lane will cut three minutes out of our travel time…?

Gio­vanni Tiso for Bat, Bean, Beam – A Web­log on Memory and Tech­no­logy: Gio­vanni is mak­ing his mark as an act­ive mem­ber of the Wel­ling­ton diger­ati. On his blog Bat, Bean, Beam – A Web­log on Memory and Tech­no­logy, you will find him express­ing him­self blessay style every damn Monday (respect to that, sir). He has attrac­ted the atten­tions of Christ­ch­urch poet­ess Har­vest Bird, who com­poses a poem in response to every one of Giovanni’s posts. Some favour­ite posts of ours include the heart­warm­ing Mak­ing Pizza With Lucia and his run­down of his finds at the Down­town City Mis­sion Book Fair. His online space is a product of place (Italy and Wel­ling­ton) and a reveals him as a per­son with an eru­dite, inde­pend­ent mind – not to men­tion an atten­tion span not usu­ally asso­ci­ated with the web.

Mico San­tos for The Sidestrip: Mico is the con­sist­ent chron­icler-by-video of the great things around this town. Mico turns up at events, takes lovely videos, care­fully edits the foot­age, and uploads a fin­ished short that always man­ages cap­ture the atmo­sphere of the many events that make Wel­ling­ton great.