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.

webstockWeb­stock: 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.

side stripMico 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.