Well, it seems that Severed Fifth has been making its way across some of the news sites recently. I figured it would be useful to fill you all in on some of the sites that have picked up the project and to also ask you lovely people to contribute to some online documentation about the project. Read on… :)

Firstly, I did an interview with the Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute radio show, a local show in England that also goes out across the Internet. We talked for a little while about the project and they played Beating Heart. Thanks to the CC license, I have chopped out the segment, and you can hear the Ogg or MP3 of the interview. Thanks to Matthew and Neil.

Thanks also to Ryan Paul of Ars Technica for the excellent write-up of the project, and the associated Digg. This has clearly brought a number of new people over to the Severed Fifth website.

Thanks to Martijn van de Streek for letting me know about the dutch site Tweakers write-up of the project, in which they said:

“Ondanks succesverhalen, zoals de onafhankelijke webrelease van het laatste Radiohead-album en digitale weggevertjes van Nine Inch Nails, lopen bands die het pad van het ‘give it away and pray’-model willen bewandelen, de nodige risico’s. Bacon wil dit aan den lijve ondervinden, door onder de projectnaam Severed Fifth zijn soloalbum ‘Denied By Reign’ onder een Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licentie uit te brengen. Door dit licentietype krijgt iedereen het recht om dit werk te kopiëren, te distribueren en te veranderen, bijvoorbeeld door het te remixen”.

…which I am assured is good. :)

Help document Severed Fifth

In related news, I was also pleased to see that Greg from the Creative Commons mentioned Severed Fifth in this blog entry about the new Creative Commons case study site, specifically linking to Severed Fifth. He also asks for help for people to contribute to the Severed Fifth Case Study page on the Creative Commons wiki. Anyone want to help with this?

Speaking of which, I think Severed Fifth is begging for some wikipedia love – anyone want to help with this? Documenting the project on wikipedia is an excellent way of tracking the progress of Severed Fifth for the general public, but I don’t personally have that much time to work on it, so a willing volunteer would be a great help.