How Standards Proliferate

I thought I would take a momentary break from the inbound marketing content and post something from my engineering roots – standards. I’m heavily involved with the International Society of Automation and one of their key missions is developing automation industry standards. However, this could just as easily apply to any number of standards that inbound marketers need to deal with; syndication (RSS, atom), browsers, HTML5, etc…

This comic appeared on the xkcd site today and it made me laugh out loud. I’m sure there are more than a few automation professionals who can identify with this:

Standards comic from xkcd

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