Americablog’s John Aravosis has a fascsinating post about online etiquette that should be ready by everyone (and everyone will have their own ideas, of course). Here’s the intro:
This is one in a series of posts about how to best use the Internet in a way that gets your message heard and doesn’t piss off the person you’re trying to influence. I usually tick some people off by writing this, but that’s okay, because they tick me off when they spam me. If people want to be effective advocates – be it on this site or by writing to other bloggers, journalists, etc., my advice should help. So here goes.
Read it all yahself…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.