Steve Strogatz has written a number of excellent pieces/books on networks and network analysis. He rocks the network world! In a series of weekly pieces for The New York Times, he addresses a number of topics in and around networks. In particular, Strogatz gets right into balance theory and transitivity, in his NYT article “From Fish to Infinity”. Follow him on Mondays in the NYT, in the Opinionator Blog.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/