Over at Coding Quark, Dhavan Vaidya has a nice post on getting started with Emacs. Rather than talk about keybindings and navigation, he concentrates on the things you should do and the resources you should read to get going with Emacs.
My favorite part is the section on why you should use Emacs. Here he lists what experts such as ESR and Batsov have to say on the matter. This part makes much of the killer feature of Emacs: its extensibility and openness. Although he doesn’t use the term “Lisp Machine,” he essentially describes one and the advantages that it brings.
If you’ve been thinking about trying Emacs, you might enjoy this post. Even if you’re already a user, you may find it useful as a sort of bias confirmation.