Apparently writer and blooger Luke Ford developed a niche for himself by blogging about porn gossip. I came across this person's name accidentally, find him interesting. Here's the wiki on Mr. Ford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Ford
Luke Ford (born May 28, 1966, in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia) is a writer, blogger, and former pornography gossip columnist known for his salacious disclosures and traditionalist Jewish religious views.
Personal
Ford moved to California in 1977. His father, Desmond Ford, was a noted Seventh-day Adventist theologian, and was the center of a theological controversy in the late 1970s and 80s. His mother, Gwen Ford, died in March 1970, of bone cancer, when Ford was three years old.
After leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ford explored atheism. Ford states that he was converted through the Los Angeles Beis Din[1] and he is very active in attacking and criticising Jews and Rabbis in his Blog.[2] Ford says he observes the Jewish Sabbath, attends synagogue regularly, and keeps kosher. He has been asked to leave at least two different congregations.[3] Ford wrote about his religious ostracism in XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul.
Ford has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, which kept him bedridden for a time in his twenties.[4]
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Professional
Ford studied economics at UCLA but did not graduate. Instead, he worked as an investigative journalist for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry, and started to write a book, which would become A History of X.
In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed, and acted in What Women Want, a pornographic video, not related to the Mel Gibson movie of the same name. It was not a success. [5]
In 1997, Ford started his pornography gossip web site, LukeFord.com. It was criticised for being badly organized, but contained a large amount of information; Ford would take a tape recorder with him nearly wherever he went, and transcribed many conversations.
Ford exposed a 1998 HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors (including Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice.[4] Ashley eventually sued Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World’s Biggest Anal Gangbang.
Discretion has never been a Ford strong suit. In his own words "I'm not a businessman. I'm not a conventional journalist. I'm a story teller/entertainer/lunatic."[6] Prominent porn stars such as Asia Carrera and Brandy Alexandre have criticised errors and inaccuracy on his site. But its impact was undeniable, and he was referred to as the Matt Drudge of porn.[4]
Ford was sued for defamation multiple times by people in the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (as well as the Federal Trade Commission) accused of dishonesty; Christi Lake, whom he mislabeled in a bestiality photo; and Laurie Holmes (widow of John Holmes), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Ford has said that he has been sued five times to date: one suit was dropped, another was thrown out, another was settled when his insurance company paid $100,000, and the last two were settled when he removed some of his statements without making a retraction.[7] Wired magazine called him "The Most Hated Man in Web Porn".[6] He was even physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for Hustler.[8]
In August 2001, after urgings of his rabbi, Ford sold his main web site, LukeFord.com, to Netvideogirls.com for $25,000, and created lukeford.net, which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. One year later, after nearly going broke, he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com, with many of his old archives.[9] On October 23, 2007, Ford announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party.[10] "Any writing I do on the porn industry from now on will be for publications with no porn advertising," Ford said. Those owners (whose names have not been divulged) ran the site until June 2008 but walked away from the site saying that writing the site was too much work for the money earned.[11] It was sold a second time, with the new owner being long-time industry observer Cindy Loftus.[12]
The Lukeford.com site is currently headed by Taylor Rain with most day to day blogging done by former owner Scott Fayner. It publishes gossip that is friendlier to the porn industry.
AVN Hall of Famer Bill Margold has said that "Luke Ford is exactly what we deserve... Luke's not really a blogger as much as is an Internet journalist".[9]
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