Barriers to entry
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the problems of “barriers to entry". In particular the huge and tangled mass of practical and psychological reasons that we can all find not to do something. It’s a source of continual embarassment to me that I have mumbled out over 200 blog entries about podcasting, without ever actually posting a single podcast myself. I could (of course) ramble on about this and present a whole range of plausible reasons why I haven’t done it. But the bottom line is those darn “barriers to entry". I’ll leave it as an exercise for anyone reading this to come up with a list of things that can get in the way of actually doing it (feel free to add a list of suggestions to comments here).
The strangest thing of all is that I seem to find it easier to record audio and send it to other podcasters (for example Dan and Ryan’s “outchurched”, and the (sadly, apparently moribund) Plain Clothes Poetry), or even to post video on my companion site Make Your Own Video.
So I’m laying down a challenge for myself, and making it public here. By the end of May 2005 I will have posted more than one podcast. If I haven’t - you can shout at me :)
