So it's not surprising I was eager to sign up for an LJ mind map. In the event it doesn't really appear to tell me very much. If you pay you get a colour version, which might be slightly more informative but I suspect not sufficiently so to justify spending the money.
I'm mainly posting it as an excuse to link to lots of cool posts about friend networks.
pseudomonas made a fun tool that draws pretty pictures of how different groups fit together.
rho talks about interconnectness and defines a particular multi-tentacled group that I have several contacts with.
fluffymark comments intelligently on
rho's post and sparks some interesting discussion.
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doseybat also responds to
rho's post and provokes some great comments from clever people (
791point43 and
compilerbitch).
(I've also tried to run the Touchgraph friends list browser, but it crashes with error messages that mean nothing to me because I'm a spoiled and clueless Windows user used to nice, straightforward self-extracting files.)
Addendum 25.9.04:
And yeah, the new version of the update page is very, very broken. It was theoretically tested pre-relase but. Over 30 separate issues reported and it's only been just over an hour.