Yes indeed my friends, after successfully completing a whole year with Dude Meister Blogs, I'm celebrating with a giveaway. And the best part? You get to choose which one out of these 4 incredible DVD boxsets you'd like if you win:
Then just post a comment on the status containing this post with which Boxset you'd like to win.
And you'll be entered into the prize draw next week. Competition closes 5pm (UK Time) on the 16th January, only one comment per person please, and this is for UK residents only. Sorry, rest of the world! The winner will be notified by email (or Facebook) shortly after the competition closes and asked to provide an address to receive the prize through.
So get those comments in quick for your chance to win, and feel free to follow me on Twitter (@DMeisterTweets) for all the latest here and for more future giveaways.
EDIT: Just to clarify, this will be a brand new boxset the winner receives, not one taken from my own collection and passed on. Hope that prevents any confusion.
Exactly one year ago I had the crazy idea to start up a blog to help with my career aspirations of writing. "Dude Meister Blogs, I'll call it!" I said to myself, and went straight onto it with an embarrassingly dumb first post that would make any social media regular think "This kid ain't gonna last a mointh!" (because of course, they all sound like Italian-Americans).
So after 11,000 hits and 144 posts here we are, with not just a blog, but a brand that I am so delightedly happy with. I found a niche of the Pop-Culture, with my regular reviews of TV, Books and Films, and of course the many, many trailers I've slaved over analysing (believe me when I say I can recite them). So thanks for all the support you've been rolling out to me, and I hope the next year brings even greater things for DMb (as the cool cats call it). I've got a number of things in the pipeline that I cannot wait to start up and share with you all; that is of course, if you stick with me until then.
Happy New Year everybody, and welcome to the first Supdate of 2012, where I'll be implanting mostly useless knowledge into your heads. First on this weeks agenda is concerning a certain promise I made a while back:
Short Film Sadness...
In the last Supdate I mentioned the Short Film I'd been working on at school, entitled Facehook. While I can confirm that post-production on the epic mini has indeed wrapped, something else has unfortunately come to light. Due to certain "Plagiarism" rules in the exam board, the film can't be posted online until after it's been officially marked. So despite my best wishes, you're just going to have to wait until this June to witness what critics are already hailing as "a masterpiece". At least this way it'll have a "Summer Blockbuster" vibe going for it...
I've also been thinking about a couple more feature-type things to get started, especially after the amount of fun I had with the beat-boxing, vocal thingy I did. A couple of helpful "How To" articles too, perhaps? And maybe some more Single Epsiode reviews of shows, like last week's Sherlock episode that I looked at. The Podcast project has also taken another step toward actually, maybe, kind of, hopefully happening, especially after all the research I've done by listening to the awesome podcasts over at the Nerdist Network. Template: found. And maybe once all these blasted exams I'm having to work for this month, I'll be able to do some more networking.
Nearly 1 Year Old
Tomorrow (9th January 2012) marks the first birthday for the blog. I'll be celebrating in numerous ways, such as:
Doing a post about it (obviously).
Revising for exams.
Giving away a free DVD boxset in the anniversary giveaway I'm going to set up.
Drinking a lot. Mostly tea. I am British (and 15) after all.
Sleeping.
Making a blanket-fort.
Hey, can't blame a guy for wanting to party, am I right? Especially if Magnitude turns up:
Well it looks like, in just under a year, Dude Meister Blogs reached 10,000 views. And boy am I proud! On the 9th of January, I had no idea that I'd be starting out a blog that would reach such value (at least to me, sentimentally). And while there are hundreds of sites, doing what I do, that get that in mere hours, I'm still overwhelmingly happy with how far I've come. So thanks to those who've clicked on the countless, cheesy links I throw on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks to those who've given me even the slightest of publicity (HUSBANDS! and JANE ESPENSON!). Thanks to all those rather disturbed individuals who've been led to my site after Googling camel penis 88 times. Thanks to the random people that stumbled upon this by accident, and either fallen in love or left immediately (the latter seems more likely). However you've found yourself here, I am grateful for it. And thus, I shall endeavour to continue, finding all new and awesome ways to write stuff and have it read, seen, glanced, or glimpsed by you.
Thanks everyone.
Arnold Thornton-Rice
And although we didn't manage to get a 10,000 hit screen-shot, this 10,001 still gives some credit, courtesy of Nick Townsend, who is believed to be the 10,000 hitter at 19:44 GMT. Or as he's better known (Read: forced this upon me.) "That really awesome dude, and I wouldn't be here without hit" - His exact words (mistake included), not mine.
Yes, after 8 months of on/off blogging, we've arrived here at the 100th post. 99 blogs have been leading up to this one moment, the moment whereI shall... give you some stats and stuff? Sorry, that's all I've got, so here's Dude Meister Blogs: By The Numbers:
Since January 9th 2011, DMb has had 4996 individual views (as of this moment of writing); that's over 1000 more people that inhabit the Falkland Islands.
This List shows the top ten countries that have viewed the site (with map!):
United Kingdom
3,224
United States
846
Australia
96
Lithuania
79
Spain
63
Canada
59
Germany
52
India
31
Singapore
21
Mexico
18
Neat graph of browsers used: (Google Chrome Forever!)
That list really goes to show how far social networking can get you, with the majority being posts that I metaphorically "pimped" on media sites like Twitter and YouTube, not to mention how I link all of them to my Facebook. Which means I should be doing a lot more of it, so here's Twitter: @DMeisterTweets and I look forward to your follow! Also, YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/DudeMeisterVlogs
Fun (and slightly worrying) Fact: 7 people have searched the words "camel penis" and wound up on here... My fan base, everybody!
And finally here's a nice graph charting the ups and downs of the last 8 months:
So that's that. Stats.
Anyway, I suppose a 100th Post Party is a good time to thank all you lovely readers and viewers that have kept me going up until this point. Without you, I might have quit at post #3! So cheers everyone, and here's to the (hopefully more interesting and fruitful) future! *Blows party poppers... alone*
