{"id":1486,"date":"2010-10-13T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:44:09","slug":"the-andy-kaufman-of-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2010\/10\/13\/the-andy-kaufman-of-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Andy Kaufman of bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Ford is the <a href=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?page_id=10\">most bizarre person<\/a> I&#8217;ve come across in a long time. \u00a0(Update, 2012: still is!) \u00a0Reading his personal journal suggests he is a cross between Andy Kaufman, Sam Sloan, and Woody Allen&#8230; with a pinch of dissociation and a journalists reflection on his own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/luke_ford\/bio\/l20.htm\">life journey<\/a>. \u00a0The characters he writes about one believes are all being quoted and transcribed verbatim.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/\/\u00a0<em>I believe in chocolate,&#8221; she says. &#8220;And not much else. It&#8217;s definitely pretty scary.<\/em>\/\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What seem to be entire unedited photosets of his (many different versions of each portrait) have been <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Luke_Ford\">uploaded to Commons<\/a>. When does a photographer sharing their photos cross the line from &#8220;publishing productively to the Commons&#8221; to &#8220;using Commons as a personal photo hosting service&#8221;? Do we want to duplicate Flickr&#8217;s functionality for any freely-licensed images, and if so, what will that end up costing? Flickr already hosts many times the current Commons capacity in CC-BY and CC-SA photos, this would be a significant shift in our use of infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to have come across Ford&#8217;s work because he has a large personal category on Commons, and was linked from a discussion of controversial content; are there other photogs (with other topical focus) who also have thousands of their own photos there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Ford is the most bizarre person I&#8217;ve come across in a long time. \u00a0(Update, 2012: still is!) \u00a0Reading his personal journal suggests he is a cross between Andy Kaufman, Sam Sloan, and Woody Allen&#8230; with a pinch of dissociation and a journalists reflection on his own\u00a0life journey. \u00a0The characters he writes about one believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[207,218,215,1,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable","category-not-so-popular","category-too-weird-for-fiction","category-uncategorized","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-nY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}