30 Days of Creativity 2012, a set on Flickr.

Played a little catch up today for the annual 30 Days of Creativity. Every year, there is an inspirational calendar in case someone has a little writer’s block or needs a bit of a nudge toward making something.

I wonder about the crazy algorithms concocted by the geeky engineers of Silicon Valley and thought it’d be a fun experiment to run each day’s term through the various search engines. Limiting myself to Google, Bing, Pinterest, Instagram and Flickr, I’m grouping the top results into a daily collage. With the latter three, it’s key to note that these images are deliberately tagged by the human being uploading the image. Even only four days into the project, I’m noticing better quality results.

What intrigues me is how disparate the images can be – “Friday” is a prime example. Really Google? And I include the quantities when I could (Pinterest’s native search didn’t return a number), proving that quantity doesn’t equal quality. I’ll take Flickr’s search results any day of the week.

30 Days of Creativity: Day 5 Optimism Pessimism on Flickr.

30 Days of Creativity: Day 5 Optimism Pessimism

Thought I could bang out a pretty simple stat that played on the eternal question of whether a glass is half full or half empty. According to Simmons, a good 80 million people chose not to answer that question in their survey.

Meh.

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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

30 Days of Creativity: Day 3 on Flickr.

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I’ll begin by saying I’m all Apple, all day. Hard to believe I’ve been using some form of an Apple product since the mid-80’s but I still felt compelled to put Steve Jobs’ boast at the 2011 WWDC into perspective.

This continues my theme of Context for 30 Days of Creativity

30 Days of Creativity: Day 2 on Flickr.

Finally getting to Day 2 of 30 Days of Creativity.

The World Health Organization recently released a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that studied the potential link between cell phones and cancer.

CNN and other media outlets hyped up the report but with just a little digging, it’s not hard to get a clearer picture.

If you want to leave me a comment, I’ll gladly read them on my phone as I enjoy a double espresso.

Via Flickr:
The World Health Organization recently released a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that studied the potential link between cell phones and cancer.

CNN and other media outlets hyped up the report but with just a little digging, it’s not hard to get a clearer picture.

If you want to leave me a comment, I’ll gladly read them on my phone as I enjoy a double espresso.

createstuff:

The 2011 calendar is here. Get inspired!

The 2011 calendar is posted if you’re looking for ways to get inspired for this year’s 30 Days of Creativity. Have you pledged yet?

Fun. Easy. Rewarding.