Last week, Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog (http://kevin.lexblog.com) wrote about blogger Ana Marie Cox, formerly of Wonkette (www.wonkette.com) and how she has been stolen away by Time magazine. In the article, he mentioned the hard-working bloggers of Legal Blog Watch (http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/), Robert Ambrogi and Carolyn Elefant, and how they too could be stolen away from Legal Blog Watch's parent company American Lawyer Media if ALM doesn't watch their back.



While Elefant and Ambrogi were flattered to be singled out for such praise, others though O'Keefe was totally out of line. In particular, his public pondering of how much the Legal Blog Watch bloggers are being paid drew criticism. O'Keefe, always looking for a fight, posted an email from the anonymous author of Blawg Review (http://www.blawgreview.com/) in which the anonymous blogger took O'Keefe to task.





This left the guys from Legal Blog Watch scrambling to make it clear that A) they had no idea O'Keefe was going to talk about them and how much they are paid, B) they don't need anybody else to take up their cause, and C) they're happy working for ALM.



O'Keefe also mentioned that he didn't think ALM understood the power of blogs and the Internet in general, leaving the Legal Blog Watchers to do their best to defend their employers.



The whole thing is a little pointless and verges on navel-gazing, but it's funny. It seems that O'Keefe thought he was helping Ambrogi and Elefant out, but apparently, they didn't need that kind of help.