Two of my favorite things:

Numbers and Web Design/Development.

They’ve both been combined in A List Apart‘s new Web Design survey. They asked around 33 thousand web nerds 37 questions a piece…and then went and got all statistical on their arses – providing “the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.”

To my delight, they even provide the raw data so you can go crunch on your own.

Sweet.

Anyway, If that kind of thing floats your boat, please take a look.

Download the report »

Get the numbers »

Just a reminder, for those of you that don’t know, have forgotten, or whose spam filters ate up the invite.

Tomorrow (Wednesday the 24th) is a fun shindig. At the American Legion.

All of you know about the Savannah Music Festival (SMF) and hopefully most of you know about SNAP (their young peeps group that I’m involved with.)

With the SMF approaching quickly, they are ready to unveil their 2008 season announcement and they’ve decided to double-time it and combine the event with SNAP’s monthly party. FUN.

Festival Supporters and current SNAP members (and folks who sign up for a SNAP membership at the door) will be admitted at 6pm for cocktails and fun announcement shenanigans.

So if you ain’t a SNAP member, sign up at the door. It’s worth it, and all the cool kids are doing it. Plus you’ll get free admission to the event and a free cocktail to boot!

(Folks who don’t want to be SNAP members will be able to buy tickets for first and second set at 7:15pm at the door for $10.)

Tuesday was Leadership Savannah day, and the topic of the month was: “Media/Information/Technology.”

Oh goodie. :)

Despite the fact that I knew the presenters and had actually heard their presentations before, I was still excited. I’m a sucker for nerdery and any chance to revel in it is fine with me. The program revolved around 3 sessions:

• Where Savannah is today in terms of technology and access to information
• The future: How Information will move and why community leaders should care (panel discussion)
• Facilitated dialogue

The people speaking were the usual cast of characters you’d might see at any TCCi event: Jason Burr of ATDC, Bradley Taylor of RailsMachine, Murray Wilson of tps, Jim Goodlett of Morris Technology, and Dan Suwyn of Rapid Change. All great folks.

I’m not going to go into too much detail, but suffice it to say I enjoyed myself – although, admittedly the program was a little long and we all got a little sleepy toward the end. I think feeding people tasty Barnes food followed by 5 hours of sit down discussion will tend to do that.

Have you seen some interesting activity around Forsyth Park in the past couple of days? Well, the word on the street (actually I got the tip from my roommate, Kelly, and the full scoop from this super article by Jim Morekis at ConnectSavannah.com) is that there is an art piece being installed on nearly 2500 square yards of the downtown green titled, “The Orange Step.”

Photo by Steve Bisson, Savannah Morning News

The Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) is sponsoring the public display of art, created by painter Kiril Jeliazkov, a SCAD graduate. Originally from Bulgaria, Kiril has been working with HSF to exhibit his series of 128 twenty-foot-tall abstract paintings in Forsyth Park.

The project, should everything go smoothly, will be completed by noon today (Oct. 18) and will be on display to the public (for FREE) through Tuesday, October 23 October 30th.