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April 24, 2011 4:31 PM

Webstock! The best little web design (and development, and content) conference around. The kind of place with opening credits, swag that includes confidence-boosting pencils, all the free ice-cream you can eat, and NZ Sign Language interpreters for the whole event.
Also, lots and lots of clever people talking.

It was a while back now, but it's taken some time for the videos to stop misbehaving. Some of the more outstanding talks:

• Frank Chimero on chatting around the campfire
• Josh Clark on designing for touch
• Kristina Halvorson on how to make better web content
• Doug Bowman on making the web delightful
• Christine Perfetti on useful, usable, usability techniques
• Jason Santa Maria on typography
• Tom Coates on the network
• Merlin Mann closes by telling us how scared shitless everyone is (also, slides)

Bonus material:

• The Webstock card game and
• The perl that won the Webstock card game
• Official photos, Day One and Day Two
• Media7 interviews and conference report
• Crowdsourced notes from all the sessions
• Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley play Webstock
• Photos from Amanda and Jason's ninja gig in Civic Square

Sadly missing: Scott McCloud embarrassing his daughter with the amazing presentation she gave about her holiday.

posted by roobot (11 comments total)

Been at every one of these events. Love them all. Thanks for gathering all those resources in one place!
posted by greenhornet at 4:54 PM on April 24, 2011

The last time I went to Webstock was 2010. But I did get to use time travel to skip my 30th birthday getting there, it gives you powers that super.

YMMV.
posted by ambilevous at 4:54 PM on April 24, 2011

Webstock needs a bigger Internet pipe to California.
posted by rhizome at 5:31 PM on April 24, 2011

Tempted to move to Wellington, in no small part because of Webstock.
posted by Alt F4 at 5:53 PM on April 24, 2011

Yay, Webstock! But I'm surprised at how many web design conferences have absolutely tragic looking websites. The lineup is amazing, so it just seems backwards that it looks like someone vomited on this thing with Dafont and DeviantArt brushes. Web Design World's are equally as bad.
posted by june made him a gemini at 6:15 PM on April 24, 2011

Wow! this event will surely be again a big hit! Have a good time on the event guys!
posted by joygustilo at 6:32 PM on April 24, 2011

Yay, Webstock! But I'm surprised at how many web design conferences have absolutely tragic looking websites. The lineup is amazing, so it just seems backwards that it looks like someone vomited on this thing with Dafont and DeviantArt brushes. Web Design World's are equally as bad.

No, no, no! In 2011, that's good design.
posted by sonic meat machine at 6:45 PM on April 24, 2011

$1200 ticket price plus $650 per workshop was just too over-the-top for me.

Roll on Kiwicon...
posted by xiw at 12:02 AM on April 25, 2011

Webstock is great. Missed this years because of wedding.:(
posted by Samuel Farrow at 4:34 AM on April 25, 2011

FWIW - me.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 4:38 AM on April 25, 2011

Gruber's talk on UI is very good.
posted by judson at 6:28 AM on April 25, 2011