Oddly I've had a couple of email (even one from a Microserf) asking why I thought I would never become an MVP. Well, the simple answer is - time. Keeping a blog takes relatively little time, I probably spend an hour a day max posting to this thing and leaving selacious comments on other peoples - fine, I have no problem doing that. The problem arises when I have to block out significant periods of time to do stuff. In any one day I probably have about 2 hours where I can truly devote time to doing stuff of a technical nature, usually I spend my time reading articles and / or my book d'jour (currently Practical Cryptography which is excellent by the way). That's kind of the problem I get bored very quickly so the chances of spending enough time on one subject to be seen as any type of authority is pretty unlikely. I do trawl through the ASP.NET forums on occasion and hunt down questions which I feel I could answer and that no-one else has (or has answered in such a dumb way that it amounts to the same thing) - but for me this usually takes an amount of time. I tend not just to link to KB articles / provide simple Googlized information, for this reason the number of posts I make there is pretty small (in the 200s the last time I looked). I've literally spent 3-4 hours writing example projects / code before now trying to find the best solution to a problem asked in the forums. So in short, I'll never be an MVP because I don't have the time to devote to participating in the community that would seem to be a prerequisite.