how to increase your views

Can I tell you how thrilled I am that that damn Will Ferrell video has finally made its way off the home page of this blog? My lord. Every time I opened the damn thing, I would here that opening line, "Did you here Madonna reinvented herself again?" I was tempted to yank it, it became so annoying.

(I was also concerned I was going to drive readers away.)

I much prefer YouTube's model of -- when you embed their content -- requiring you to hit "play" to watch a video. Sure, Funny or Die is going to have astoundingly high views, but they aren't playing fair.