Web comic xkcd takes on sexist morons in the geek community:
When someone with a feminine username joins your community, and you say “OMG a woman on the Internet,” or “jokingly” ask for naked pics, you are being an asshole. You are not being ironic. You are not cracking everyone up. You are [...]

So, I’d like to open up a bit of discussion here. What are some of the anti-patterns that are commonly seen when geeks and non-geeks interact?
Here are three I’ve come up with:
Too much information. Geeks tend to over-share about the topics of their own obsessions.
The best is enemy of the good. Geeks [...]

I’m a few days behind in my RSS feeds, but today while reading O’Reilly Radar it seemed like there was a run of articles of relevance to the subject of Geek Etiquette.
Firstly, Tim O’Reilly takes on social networking invitation etiquette. As a well known figure in the tech world, he gets more invitations than [...]

This is a guest post from Russ Olsen, who blogs at Technology as if People Matter. I must admit that I’ve forgotten how I first came across his blog, but when I did, I pretty quickly emailed him and asked if he’d be interested in writing for Geek Etiquette. Now I’m happy to [...]

Tiffany asked the following question in the comments to my earlier post about Michael Schwern’s Geek2Geek Communications talk:
My lateral question, should anyone have spare time, is which interface jobs exist between geekdom and the rest of the world? (Or more specifically computer geekdom, as a concentrated nexus of paying geekdom). Which ones are open to [...]