Measuring Page Views – Getting Paid

Valleywag started it and there’s been some questioning along with some tongue-in-cheek criticism (check out Scoble’s “announcement”) and general commentary (check out some excellent comments);
Paying Bloggers Based On Traffic
How many of you are relatively new to blogging? How many of you understand how to measure page views? How many stats programs have you studied? Are there different levels of value for page views based on whether you are the blogger or the network? There are many, many questions surrounding this subject – too many to address in one sitting.
I’ve never met a stats program I didn’t dislike in some way.