Ever get the feeling you're being watched?

I recently posted two .NET related blog entries - one on ASP.NET request validation, the other on framework version numbers. As usual, I got a couple of comments about the posts - no surprise there. What did surprise me was that both posts had comments from Microsoft employees (BradA and ScottGu). Two comments about this:

1) It's unbelievably cool that some of the Microsoft crew are venturing forth into the community and addressing real developer questions and issues. This is really unprecented access to people who have both knowledge and influence.

2) Despite what some of my friends would say about the size of my ego, I have no illusions that these guys actually subscribe to my blog. So I'm guessing that they are actually reading weblogs.asp.net aggregate feed. To that I can only say - wow. That's a lot of stuff to slog through, and a big time suck. I can barely keep up with the feeds on my blogroll, never mind the rest of them.

So hats off to those guys. That kind of stuff will score big points in the developer community.