Webstock 2016: Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the sixth year not quite in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now – it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial […]

Webstock 2014 Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista and Web Drive

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fifth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now – it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial Wel­ling­tonista event. […]

Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup time again!

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brew­er, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wed­nes­day Feb­ru­ary 13. Spot us by our Web­stock satchels,  Ins­tagram­ming […]

Less than a week til Webstock ’12!

Can you feel the excite­ment in the air? Hear the squeak of glasses being polished,Threadless pack­ages being opened, plaid shirts being ironed and beards being fluffed? Next week, Wel­ling­ton plays host to the greatest most awe­some con­fer­ence in the world. Fact! We’ve already made some recom­mend­a­tions of things for Web­stock attendees to do in Wel­ling­ton, […]

Webstock directions: rock out, tweet up

We’re not going to both­er telling you about Web­stock because a) you should already know all about it and b) there was only one tick­et left as of this morn­ing (although there are still tick­ets to the ONYAs avail­able, so get on that. Instead, we’re going to tell you about two related events that we […]

TAWA5 Best Contribution to the Internet from Wellington

Giv­en that Wel­ling­ton is the web cap­it­al of New Zea­l­and, it makes sense that it’s full of people doing awe­some things with and for the web.

TAWA5 Best Event

There’s always some­thing to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are circled in red on our cal­en­dars. We’re count­ing the sleeps until next year’s events!

Somewhat mixed up

On Wed­nes­day night, Mix & Mash was launched at the City Gal­lery, ask­ing people to use data to make new things. Of course, our Tom has been doing that for years, but pain­fully by hand, I believe. That should­n’t put you off enter­ing, rather it should inspire you. In fact, you should go read the […]

Hurray, it’s Webstock Week!

Don't mug Kat, she doesn't have an iPhoneSo, we did­n’t post in advance to tell you about Web­stock, because it’s sold out.

We do think you should know though that if you’re see­ing a large num­ber of people around the Town Hall this week car­ry­ing these sexy-ass satchels, they’re Web­stock­ites, and they’re all about the peace, love and inter­net. You may also be able to recog­nise them by the shiny gad­gets they carry that fea­ture pic­tures of apples prom­in­ently, the cof­fees they’ll be knock­ing back at an alarm­ing rate, and the excited, enthu­si­ast­ic and emphat­ic con­ver­sa­tions they’ll be car­ry­ing out with people who were com­plete strangers an hour earli­er.

So, if you’re not a Brown­coat brown­bag car­ri­er, we sug­gest that you lock up your sons and daugh­ters, unleash your net­works and put some more beer in the fridge for us. Cheers!

Webstock Mini

The handy pock­et-sized ver­sion of Web­stock returns to Wel­ling­ton on Tues­day next week. You might think it’s all for uber nerds and super geeks, but you would be wrong.

In fact, research just in has shown that attend­ing Web­stock Minis has been sci­en­tific­ally proven to make you more inter­est­ing, bet­ter-look­ing and all round more desir­able. And, hon­estly, that’s regard­less of how much you drink!

For your tick­et price you can learn about some cool things like Second Life, the upcom­ing ver­sion of Fire­fox and all you can eat and drink.

The whole thing winds up with a debate entitled “Web 2.0 is all fizz and no sub­stance”. Mike Brown, Sandy Mamoli and
Mark Cubey will uphold the pro­pos­i­tion against Philip Fier­linger, Brenda Leeuwen­berg and Che Tibby.

We are fully in the neg­at­ive camp, because the team fea­tures one of our new­est Wel­ling­tonis­tas, Che Tibby.

Register for Web­stock Mini:
http://www.webstock.org.nz