One of the biggest hurdles for me so far is reading through the licensing conditions for each web service. What a temptation, just to click 'I Agree' and move on to the fun part.
Like some others in this group whose posts I've read for some inspiration, I've lived through a huge shift in library technology, which has grown faster and faster in the last few years.
As long as a technology remains simple to use, it's accessible enough to me, especially if I learn it over a period of time. After all, I don't have to know all the complicated mechanics behind tone production in a pipe organ to be able to play it (though it does add something to the satisfaction, for some reason.) Creative mash-ups like those shown in The Mashup Library are interesting even if I have no idea how to implement similar things in our own environment.
BUT: having to read through and try to understand legal jargon before I can even get started in explorations does take away a lot of incentive to try out new things. I'm sure that all the library software I learned to use over the years had IP conditions and restrictions, but the site-wide license took care of all that for us; it was somebody else's responsibility to read and agree to the license. Now it's mine, and it takes a lot of time to digest it and think about the ramifications.
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