Measuring use, reuse and repurposing of open content

A growing consensus tells us that content (which turns out to be pretty much everything we create) should be available for reuse under open content licences such as the Creative Commons. Another consensus tells us that we need to count every re-use or re-purposing because sooner or later someone will come along to measure the quality of our work, and will measure it quantitatively rather than qualitatively, because qualitative evaluation is hard. Those employed at the coal-face of education will be familiar with league tables of various kinds, but other forms of also exist.

What happens then, when these two principles conflict? What happens when someone takes what I am doing and re-proposes my blog as a blog within their own site for their own audience? (See here, here or here for examples). Short blog entries (those with no "read more" link) are carried in their entirety on these sites, giving readers no cause to go to either the educause or OSS Watch sites, so I have no idea (and no way of tracking) who is reading my entries from these sites.

By any sane measure of quality or success, I should be pleased and proud that my content is being reused in this way, because it suggests that other people think what I'm saying is valuable, but when the bean counters count my beans, I have no idea what they'll make of it all.