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 he knows what to do with. Which ones make it through his barriers and actually get his attention? The ones that take the time to introduce themselves properly and provide a bit of context.

Next, Nat Torkington talks about mailing list failure modes. At O’Reilly, mailing lists grow until they are no longer useful, and then a new one starts. Is this common everywhere? Nat links to this post on hottubbing, a technique for killing an overgrown list and letting a new one rise, phoenix-like, from its ashes.

And finally, Tim writes about the upcoming EFF Web 2.0 Compliance Bootcamp, a day of classes for people working on the coal front of Web 2.0 and trying to deal with the legal and customer service issues that arise when your business model is all about people. It’ll cover topics like harrassment, fair use, porn, and anonymity. I’m assuming that it’s an attempt to head off problems like those recently experienced on LiveJournal, where communications about account suspensions were handled poorly. Good to see that the EFF is helping these companies address such a tricky subject.