Do the viewing have to be from different IP addresses? I mean let's say I click on my blog 100 times from a different pc. Would that mean I have 100 viewings?

The competition is revolving around getting thousands of views, and so clicking a couple of times from different computers isn't necessarily going to make any impact. What we're looking for is how creative you can be getting the word out to the masses. So if we see a blog entry with 10,000 views and no trackbacks, we will just assume that you got a bot to keep refreshing the page.

What exactly are trackbacks? You are speaking to an absolute idiot who only knows how to open his browser when it come to the WWW.

Other websites that link to the article.

How can you find if other websites link a particular page? And is it impossible to have 10000 friends?

Well of course on DaniWeb blogs a script or something does it automatically. But I believe how trackbacks work is like this: A computer first visits a site. When a computer trys to visit a site linked to by the page it was viewing, it sends the regular HTTP request, but it has something called "referrer" information. This is then gathered by a script or whatever, stored, and can be shown on a website. See this for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer

When looking at a blog entry, click the "Trackbacks" link to find all other articles that link to it.

You don't need them. Check out my Inside Edge blog and hit the trackbacks link. Most will get around 20-30 trackbacks, but one that made the Digg front page (Spammers named and shamed - 20,000+ views) has over 300 trackbacks as the word spread.

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/trackbacks1056.html <= awesome!!

I know... I just looked at that the other day and was so amazed...

Although most of those trackbacks (and pretty well anybody's) are simply from Digg, as there's multiple ways of viewing an article (such as searching Digg, in which case each search that someone clicks on the article will yield a unique trackback from Digg).