Anil Dash has a good post today about David Allen's Getting Things Done and how the "life management" system has attracted near cult-like following in Geekdom thanks to its bloggger evangelists. Even if you have no interest in the system, this is a good case history worth reading to learn how blogs drive memes.
Even though Allen's productivity book has been on dead trees for more than three years, it's still a BusinessWeek best-seller thanks to a near constant drumbeat of online buzz. To get a feel for this fervency, take a tour of the book's dedicated online forums (which are RSS enabled by the way) or look at who's blogging it.
Thanks to David Allen evangelists like Robert Scoble, John Porcaro and Marc Orchant, I recently started studying "GTD," as the system is called (everything in Geekdom is an TLA - a three letter acronym). It's a bit complicated and I can easily see how it can become overwhelming, but I too have been bitten by the GTD bug and now I too call myself an evangelist. See how that works?
