He's not aiming to help "social singing". As he says "The main idea behind afolksongaday.com is to try and do my bit for raising the profile of unaccompanied social singing."

eh?

My point still stands. How is releasing recordings of yourself alone in a room over the internet to be listened to by other people sitting in their rooms raising the profile of social singing? Publicising a network of places where social singing takes place, or making this a songbook instead might have been better ways to achieve the aim. I wholeheartedly support the sentiment behind what he's trying to do, but bringing the equivalent of a 30-disc set of rough and ready recordings into the world is a funny way to do this.

You can't get away from the fact that most people will just treat this as the new set of Jon Boden recordings. Its main effect will be raising the profile of Jon Boden.