The award is for community contributions in the past
year, so, I suppose, theoretically, you could, but you
would need to make some pretty significant blog
posts/volume.
I'd spend a good deal of time hanging out on msnews or
asp.net/forums.
What is the Microsoft MVP award?
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is
an annual award that is given to outstanding members of
Microsoft's peer-to-peer communities.
I think blogging can be considered a form of
peer-to-peer community. You definitely have you name
known to at least the readers of dotnetweblogs, which
includes people from Microsoft. Just up your valuable
posts vs your It's not fair I can't go to the PDC posts
and I think you are on your way. It does take time
though so don't expect it overnight.
Umm, I don't know how the MVP stuff works, but I'd
assume you'd have to have a blog that the dev community
finds indispensible as a source of useful technicle
info. But if I put up a bunch of links to cool MSDN
articles, I don't think that should count. Most of us do
exactly that. Similarly, having a huge archive of blog
posts shouldn't count. But hey, what do I know.
From my perspective as the MVP Lead for the WebData XML
team, if all you do is blog then it is unlikely that
you'll be awarded an MVP. This seems to be the current
stance of the MVP Program and I heartily agree with it.
MVPs are not evangelists. The MVP award is given to
people who help our customers use our technology.
Sometimes the line gets a bit fuzzy, though.
But, clearly, the MVP group is growing the program
outside of the traditional newsgroup base.
I didn't mean evangelizing. I meant doing the same thing
that people do on newsgroups - helping with questions
and helping people understand the technology.
Note: I've removed some of the comments as per a
specific request, as they belonged in a spearate,
private discussion.