Lexipedia – “Where words have meaning”
Spatial visualization, again. Lexipedia allows users to visualize conceptual networks created with loosely associated expressions and words. The website’s slogan, “where words have meaning,” illustrates how meaning is seen as weaving through relations between signs and their location in a given network of signification rather than ontologically.
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There are many other interactive tools and softwares for typographic conceptual networks: Thinkmap (a visual Thesaurus) and Doodle Buzz, among others. The snapshot below shows the kind of results one might expect from using Doodle Buzz. In the conceptors’ own account, Doodle Buzz is a new way to approach information, a “quiet chaos” way. The entropy of the information age is indeed more Doodlian than Googlian in many respects and the web has very little to do with linearity. Doodle Buzz is McLuhan’s CounterBlast on steroids, a fascinating hyperbrowser.
