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